anatak Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hello,I am trying to build a website that will support multiple languages (mainly english and Japanese)Can someone explain what I need to be able to put all my strings into utf-8 ?Here is what I would like to do.Use UTF-8 for all strings.It is my understanding that utf-8 can encode every possible language. (please correct me if I am wrong)and here are the questions.how do you do this exactly ?I think I have to set the charset in the website to utf-8 ( <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET="utf-8"> ）the database has to have utf-8 as default charset I guess ?I guess that means I have to put all the text and varchar fields to utf-8.Does anyone know if you can do that without losing data ?Do I need to do something else ?is there some php option I have to change ?or something on the webserver ? (apache)thank youanatak Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/11534-internationalization-with-utf-8/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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