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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 12:22] (current) – [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 string 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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