On 28/06/2019 22:25, Tobiah wrote:
A guy comes in and enters his last name as RÖnngren.
With a capital Ö in the middle? That's unusual.
So what did the browser really give me; is it encoded
in some way, like latin-1? Does it depend on whether
the name was cut and pasted from a Word doc. etc?
Should I handle these internally as unicode? Right
now my database tables are latin-1 and things seem
to usually work, but not always.
If your database is using latin-1, German and French names will work,
but Croatian and Polish names often won't. Not to mention people using
other writing systems.
So Günther and François are ok, but Bolesław turns into Boles?aw and
don't even think about anybody called Владимир or محمد.
Also, what do people do when searching for a record.
Is there some way to get 'Ronngren' to match the other
possible foreign spellings?
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