| Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms [message #184509 is a reply to message #184506] |
Fri, 03 January 2014 21:54   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> writes:
>> On 1/3/2014 9:30 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> <snip>
>>> You really only need UTF-8 in the database. The page encoding is not
>>> that important.
>>
>> I beg to differ. Page encoding is important if you want the correct
>> characters displayed.
>
> It's important, but not *that* important. The OP says that changing it
> is not an option, so I gave an example of how one can finesse the page
> encoding entirely -- by converting data you take from the data base to
> ASCII.
You can do that – at the risk of increasing the server-side runtime and
memory usage of the PHP program, the size of the output, the loading and
rendering time, and memory usage of the document client-side, considerably,
to no substantial advantage. It is the *World Wide* Web, and for that
reason alone UTF-8 support is ubiquitous there since years.
PointedEars
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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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