You decide on one single encoding to store all your data in the database. If most of your data is English, and especially if you're in a unix environment, UTF-8 is the natural choice.

Then you have to make sure that everything you send out is marked as UTF-8: The "Content-type" HTTP header should be set to "text/html; charset=utf-8".

And, of course, you have to make sure everything you put in your database is in UTF-8, too. You can use Perl's Encode module to do this. If you know what encoding the input is in, it is easy. If you don't, it's less easy :)

In reply to Re: Unicode Woes by gaal
in thread Unicode Woes by BigLug

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