So I decided to give PHP another look see for some small recreational projects when I stumbled across this:

Quote :

" "A string is series of characters. In PHP, a character is the same as a byte, that is, there are exactly 256 different characters possible. This also implies that PHP has no native support of Unicode. See utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() for some Unicode support." http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php "

What gives? This sounds like something that could bite a project in the ass when it considers i18n 2 months before it goes live. Those of you who are avid PHP developers, have you found any approaches that alleviate this problem?

3/22/2007 7:04:07 AM

Stein is a php god.

3/22/2007 7:34:06 AM

I concur.

3/22/2007 8:38:59 AM

http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets

Is a REALLY good resource to help handle this.

basically there's no one-size-fits all solution, but there are several ways to make do until the next major revision of PHP hits.

3/22/2007 12:00:34 PM

Sadly, international stuff is out of my PHP wheelhouse, so to speak.

3/22/2007 2:57:01 PM