[thelist] [TIP] - Use UTF-8 whenever possible, or get used to extra doses of caffeine.
Luther, Ron
Ron.Luther at hp.com
Wed May 10 16:33:40 CDT 2006
VOLKAN ÖZÇELIK offered up a nice tip extolling the use of UTF-8:
>>Again, it is a good practce to use UTF-8 as the encoding of your web application.
Hi Volkan,
There are a lot of things I like about UTF-8, but I've still got a question
or two since I don't use UTF-8 much today. (However, I will be working with
it more in the future.)
Say you've got a 'search' screen in your app and your user wants to search
for a record using a field like 'last name' that allows diacritical marks
like agraves and such.
How do they type in "ÖZÇELIK" to get a match and bring up that record?
What happens on the search if they get the diacritical marks incorrect
(They type the "O" with a circumflex instead of a diaeresis or trema)
or leave the marks off entirely? No match?
Thanks,
RonL.
(Who has, over the last couple of years, seen a number of front-end and
back-end processes, tools, and apps (designed for ASCII-7) 'implode' when
confronted with UTF-8 data.)
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