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en:dev:284:charsets [15.11.2018 11:19] – [UTF-8 and HTML] Manuela v.d.Deckenen: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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|Wikipedia]]** To learn about the internals of UTF-8 you can visit **[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|Wikipedia]]**
 <div info>\\ Both UTF-8 and UTF-8MB4 from mySQL are 100% compatible to UTF-8 from PHP.</div> <div info>\\ Both UTF-8 and UTF-8MB4 from mySQL are 100% compatible to UTF-8 from PHP.</div>
 +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 =====
en/dev/284/charsets.txt · Last modified: 15.11.2018 12:22 by Manuela v.d.Decken