I need a plan for Unicode support in Mefeedia. Amazingly, PHP is rather bad in this regard. I’m using PHP and Mysql. Here’s a page that clearly shows the need for this.
So I have a question: what is the basic approach?
– Make sure stuff is stored in UTF-8 in MySQL?
– Make sure HTML uses UTF-8?
– What about the PHP part of the equation?
Any pointers to common sense around this are very welcome. Any good libraries?
Peter Van Dijck 
Right now in the URL you mention I get: Content-Type: text/html when I should get Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
You also need to check the http-equiv=”Content-Type” which is currently not set to utf-8
Make sure Apache is set to send everything as utf-8. you might want to add the following to .htaccess: AddCharset UTF-8 .php or this to your httpd.conf file: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
I also have a bunch of links I reference here: http://del.icio.us/raster/unicode
Set the Header(“Content-Encoding: utf8”) will instruct the parser to enforce utf8. Wonky, I know, but the best way to do this.
erg, ignore last, it’s Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8. PHP will parse the header and output as utf8.. again, not sure why no configuration setting for this.