Re: Foreign language characters in forms

Erwin Moller wrote:
It is totally fine to use random charencodingsetX and store them in a database with charencodingY.
Works just fine, not very handy if you care for reading them back someday, but it works.

Why go through that trouble?

Charset conversions are pretty common in web applications.
For web publishing lots of people chooses utf-8 when they must deal with content in different languages, and it's not a bad choice as almost all browsers now offers good implementations of this encoding (while utf-8 is not always a goof choice for certain languages in particular, for exemple cjk).
But lots of time you also have to send emails, generate export files (csv, ...), etc. And for that types of use you can't always use Unicode and one of its encoding scheme...
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