Pablo Viquez's Blog: JSON, ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8 - Part
After spotting some null values in a few of his form fields following an Ajax request, Pablo Viquez decided to track down his issue: While I was looking at some AJAX calls, I started to have a...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon's Blog: UTF-8 support for CodeIgniter
Phil Sturgeon has posted a quick guide on working with UTF-8 support in the CodeIgniter framework. Writing an application is easy. Writing an application that supports all characters from multiple...
View ArticleElliot Haughin's Blog: Building UTF8 Compatible CodeIgniter Applications
Elliot Haughin has written up a post for all of those developers out there either already using CodeIgniter or wanting to use it for your application - a look at making a UTF-8 compatible site with...
View ArticleEvert Pot's Blog: basename() is locale-aware
Evert Pot found out an interesting thing about the basename function in PHP - it's more than just a handy shortcut for paths, it's also locale aware. It turns out basename does a bit more than just...
View ArticleDanne Lundqvist's Blog: Detecting UTF BOM - byte order mark
In a new post to his blog Danne Lundqvist looks at a common pitfall that could trip you up if you're not careful with your UTF-8 data - not looking for the UTF byte order mark that tells the...
View ArticleAhmed Shreef's Blog: iconv misunderstands UTF-16 strings with no BOM
Ahmed Shreef has a recent post to his blog about an issue he had converting UTF-16 strings over to UTF-8 with the iconv functionality in PHP. Specifically, he ended up with "rubbish unreadable...
View ArticleProject: Patchwork-UTF8 - UTF8 Support for PHP
Nicolas Grekas has shared another tool that he's pulled out of his "Patchwork" framework to make it a stand-alone tool: the Patchwork-UTF8 helper that provides matching functions to those PHP already...
View ArticleNikita Popov's Blog: htmlspecialchars() improvements in PHP 5.4
In this new post to his blog Nikita Popov looks at an update that might have gotten lost in the shuffle of new features coming in PHP 5.4 - some updates to htmlspecialchars. One set of changes that I...
View ArticleReddit.com: Let's talk Character Encoding
On Reddit.com there's a recent post with a growing discussion about character encodings in PHP applications (with some various recommendations). I would rather not have to convert these weird...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Bringing Unicode to PHP with Portable UTF-8
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new tutorial showing you how to bring portable UT-8 support to PHP with the Portable-UTF8 library. UTF-8 handling has long been one thing desired in the core of...
View ArticleEdd Mann: Reversing a Unicode String in PHP using UTF-16BE/LE
Edd Mann looks at an issue in his latest post that caused him problems in a recent project, reversing a Unicode string with UTF-16BE/LE. Last week I was bit by the Unicode encoding issue when trying...
View ArticleThree Devs & A Maybe Podcast: Understanding Character Sets and Encodings
The Three Devs & A Maybe podcast (with hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann) has posted their latest episode (#24) talking about character sets and encodings. Having only just...
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