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46: Character Encoding and UTF-8 in PHP
Panelists:
Andreas Heigl
Andreas Heigl
Evert Pot
Evert Pot
May 30 2016

If you've ever gotten a number of weird looking characters in your database or on your website like, "" and didn't know why, then this episode is for you. Those bizarre chara

What are character encodings?

  • Comparison of number systems (base-10, binary, hexadecimal)
  • Historical development of character maps and encodings (telegram, ASCII, ISO-8859-1...)
  • Unicode and its implementations (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32)
    • UT