n8w Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I am going to create a site that will have content written in English, French, Italian and GermanIs there anything I need to consider for storing this information in a database? or other considerations I should be aware of? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4099-storing-multiple-languages-in-a-db/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Consider using UTF-8 as the character set. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4099-storing-multiple-languages-in-a-db/#findComment-14228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8w Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 [!--quoteo(post=351659:date=Mar 4 2006, 04:15 PM:name=fenway)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(fenway @ Mar 4 2006, 04:15 PM) [snapback]351659[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Consider using UTF-8 as the character set.[/quote]is that something I do with the database .. or just as a meta tag in html? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4099-storing-multiple-languages-in-a-db/#findComment-14231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickning1 Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 That's the character set you want to have as the default on every MySQL table you create. Once it's set as the default for a table, you won't have to worry about it when you pull or store values. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4099-storing-multiple-languages-in-a-db/#findComment-14306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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