| Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms [message #184511 is a reply to message #184469] |
Fri, 03 January 2014 22:01  |
Ben Bacarisse
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(at)web(dot)de> writes:
> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
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>> 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 speed, 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.
Yes, it's very far from ideal in general, but the OP seems resolved to
switch to UTF-8 pages in the long run so a temporary solution might be
acceptable in this case. For one thing, switching the database to UTF-8
will be needed for the long-term solution, so some of the temporary fix
won't be wasted work.
--
Ben.
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