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| To learn about the internals of UTF-8 you can visit **[[https:// | To learn about the internals of UTF-8 you can visit **[[https:// | ||
| <div info>\\ Both UTF-8 and UTF-8MB4 from mySQL are 100% compatible to UTF-8 from PHP.</ | <div info>\\ Both UTF-8 and UTF-8MB4 from mySQL are 100% compatible to UTF-8 from PHP.</ | ||
| + | But do not worry, the whole chapter with the character sets, collations and so on is only half as complicated as it looks at first glance.\\ | ||
| + | The knowledge of the character sets in the database is only really needed if you want to design new tables yourself.\\ | ||
| + | But much more important to programmers is the handling of multibyte functions in PHP. This can cause serious mistakes if you have not understood the background of the character sets. | ||
| ===== UTF-8 and PHP ===== | ===== UTF-8 and PHP ===== | ||
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| oops, your text is about 200 kB? You have lots of such? | oops, your text is about 200 kB? You have lots of such? | ||
| + | ===== UTF-8 and HTML ===== | ||
| + | Today, all modern browsers are able to render UTF-8 encoded characters. Therefore, there is usually no longer the need to output special characters in HTML entity format. | ||
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| + | In any case, it will be helpful for the browser if at least one of the following meta tags is entered in the HEAD section of the HTML document. | ||
| + | < | ||
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| + | <meta charset=" | ||
| ===== Collations ===== | ===== Collations ===== | ||
| <div info>\\ Collations does not exist in PHP. These are only properties of text fields in database tables.</ | <div info>\\ Collations does not exist in PHP. These are only properties of text fields in database tables.</ | ||
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