Jan.Hidders wrote:
It's not so much PHP that is the problem, as it is MySQL. Perhaps we should considering moving to PostgreSQL which really supports UTF-8 and is a better database anyway (some special pages could be implemented far more efficiently there).
A good opportunity for switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL is coming soon, with the move from our current server to a new and much more powerful server. I'd be happy to install PostgreSQL over there instead. And we'll be giving out developer accounts to several people, including root access where appropriate, so things are going to be a lot easier for the development team.
I propose this as also a good time to switch to Lee's refactored codebase, unless the consensus is that his code is not better than the existiing codebase.
--Jimbo