Re: [PHP] Re: languages and PHP

At 2:01 PM -0500 9/27/07, Edward Vermillion wrote:
So back to my original question, what breaks if you're *expecting* UTF-8 and you don't *get* UTF-8?

Ed

Isn't UTF-8 the big fish here?

Sure there' UTF-16 and larger, but everything else is a subset of UTF-8, is it not?

So, what's the problem if you get a character defined by ISO -- it's still within the UTF-8 super-group, right?

The only problem I see here is IF the user has the char set to display the glyph correctly -- OR am I off on something else that you guys aren't even discussing?

Cheers,

tedd


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