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en:dev:284:charsets [15.11.2018 11:19] – [UTF-8 and HTML] Manuela v.d.Decken | en:dev:284:charsets [15.11.2018 12:15] – [Charactersets] Manuela v.d.Decken | ||
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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 ===== |