Erik Moeller wrote:
perhaps in the 5% range. Given that a single edit by such a person will break an entire page, it might not be so wise to switch (but perhaps I'm missing something -- is Meta running UTF-8?).
Would it be possible to let the database run on UTF-8 internally, but to let the PHP script analyze and convert data to and from certain browsers? Perhaps the majority of users are using UTF-8-capable browsers, so the conversion would use a minimum of resources.
All I know is that MySQL has better UTF-8 support from version 4.1.x, as described in chapter 9, http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Charset.html The same goes for Perl version 5.8, but what about PHP?