On Thu, May 17, 2007 7:29 pm, Lester Caine wrote:

> Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am asked by a potential customer to let him know if I could have one
>> of my applications allowing Data entry in English AND Ukrainian.
>>
>> I have'n'got a clue on how to achieve this but after some initial
>> investigations, I believe I should have my DB converted to UTF-8 and
>> my HTML pages announcing the fact that the page is UTF-8
>>
>> I am currently using Firebird 1.5, are there any caveats ?, would I
>> be better off upgrading to firebird 2.0 ?
>>
>> could the group point me to some reading regarding this somewhat new
>> territory for me ?
>>
>> Are there any things I should be very aware of ? My all application is
>> written using ISO-8859-1, what do I need to do to convert it to UTF 8 ?
>>
>> Any pointer to get me started will be greatly appreciated
>
> While FB2 has much better UTF support, the problem is probably PHP. We
> need
> PHP6 before THAT will offer good support for UTF. That said - with a
> little
> care, you can probably manage two languages without too much trouble. It's
> when you start hitting the multi byte character stuff that the real
> problems
> happen.
>
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