http://aptoma.com/select.star/2008/12/19/mother-of-all-utf-8-checklists/ web-development, and other issues we really, really care about Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://aptoma.com/select.star/2008/12/19/mother-of-all-utf-8-checklists/comment-page-1/#comment-6288 MySql Latin1 to UTF8 Conversion | Paul Kortman Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:36:33 +0000 http://aptoma.com/select.star/?p=478#comment-6288 [...] I am not an expert in character encoding, so I’ll break it down in human terms. Latin1 cannot hold as many characters as UTF8. This becomes a problem when you have encoding from applications such as Microsoft Word, or different languages. UTF8 on the other hand can store everything latin1 can and a whole lot more. As an example, and to learn more about how to make your websites UTF-8 compatible, see Geir Berset’s Mother of all UTF-8 Check lists. [...] [...] I am not an expert in character encoding, so I’ll break it down in human terms. Latin1 cannot hold as many characters as UTF8. This becomes a problem when you have encoding from applications such as Microsoft Word, or different languages. UTF8 on the other hand can store everything latin1 can and a whole lot more. As an example, and to learn more about how to make your websites UTF-8 compatible, see Geir Berset’s Mother of all UTF-8 Check lists. [...]

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