29.Jan.2011 at 10:36 by Jerry Verhoef
Bottom-line use UTF8! Unless you really don't have a choice because of rare bugs in clients ( browser/ email client)
Charsets & Encoding
Kore Nordmann (29.Jan.2011 at 10:10)
Talk at PHPBenelux Conference 2011 (English - UK)
Each web-developer experiences them sooner or later: charset-problems. There are a lot of possibilities of doing something wrong: user-input-handling, PHP string-handling, the storage backend, the output layer. This talk shows how to handle charsets correctly with PHP, so that you’ll never have strange characters on your website again.
Quicklink: https://joind.in/2488
Track(s): Conference track 2
Slides: Charsets & Encoding
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29.Jan.2011 at 11:04 by Stephan Hochdörfer
Good talk. Encoding and Charset management can be a pain, the talk showed why.
30.Jan.2011 at 14:20 by Klaas Sijtsma
Showed a lot of places where it can co wrong. Good talk! UTF-8 is the best option. MSSQL a big pain compared to Mysql/Postgresql ?
30.Jan.2011 at 15:45 by Stefano "Steve" Maraspin
Interesting talk on a (frequently) daunting subject. Kore managed to spot important areas of concern and also warned about some common pitfalls (IE conversion between encodings, multibyte unsafe functions and so on). Definitely useful info for everyone. A few more practical examples (esp. on the db<->app data exchange) wouldn't have hurt, but I've definitely enjoyed the talk. Recommended
30.Jan.2011 at 21:15 by Richard Tuin
I would've written what maraspin wrote.
Interesting and indeed a daunting subject, definitely recommended!
31.Jan.2011 at 15:18 by Kris Lamote
Very interesting and far too familiar topic. It would have been interesting to have some examples of legacy code trouble shooting.
09.Feb.2011 at 15:04 by Daan van den Berg
Only saw the last minutes + questions at this talk. Also looked at the slides.
A subject that everyone runs into and most people have difficulty with. This talk and slides helped a lot!
tnx!
16.Mar.2011 at 21:51 by Martijn Heemels
Interesting talk, although it wasn't clearly structured. I had a hard time determining where the talk was going. I also feel insufficient time was spent on a conclusion, i.e. teaching the best practice.
The speaker seemed to assume that people knew to use UTF-8 and why. Still learned more about the origin of the problem though, and about the confusion between charsets and encodings.
29.Jan.2011 at 10:07 by Jacob Christiansen
Interesting stuff. I miss a bit more hands on examples though. You should work a bit on your presentation style.