Re: [PHP] MySQL UTF-8 vs Extended ASCII

2007-06-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, June 11, 2007 7:34 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: > You may find this useful: > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php > > It is frequently reasonably good at guessing the incoming character > set, at > least the one time we used it at work. Try running all pages/strings >

Re: [PHP] MySQL UTF-8 vs Extended ASCII

2007-06-11 Thread Larry Garfield
The underlying problem is that there is no one "Extended ASCII". There's a dozen or so different schemes for the 129-255 range, all of them incompatible. That's why Unicode now exists. :-) I've been tracking this issue myself on my blog, which may be of background use for you (especially some