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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.\\ | 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.\\ | 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. | + | But much more important to programmers is the handling of multibyte |
===== UTF-8 and PHP ===== | ===== UTF-8 and PHP ===== |