Before you start any project, please make sure that you are using the UTF-8 encoding. Everyone I talk to says that UTF-8 is almost a near standard in coding, so please make sure that you are using it from the very beginning of your project. When you start a project in a set encoding and there are problems with your data coming in because of it, you will more than likely find it in the beginning of your project, not when you are bogged down in the middle of it like I am.

I did not know or do this when I first started writing the code and data for my project, and now it is apparently impossible for me to convert over to UTF-8. All of my code is written in and around an unknown encoding. This probably makes my code less portable.

Just do yourself the favor and start with UTF-8 and not have to muck around with converting later when you are 1,500+ files into your project when you get into a problem where a character will not display correctly no matter how hard you try to fix it.

This was written after a very bad time trying and failing to deal with this, so please be forgiving.

Have a cookie and a very nice day!
Lady Aleena

In reply to Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding by Lady_Aleena

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