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A couple of nights ago I was making our "Latest Blog Post in Postbit" feature for Webmaster-Talk when I had my first real run-in with character encodings. Upon parsing an off-site RSS feed encoded in UTF-8, I found that Unicode characters were being read as "?" since PHP doesn't support Unicode. After some reading, I know the solution -- but I wish I had this link then, it would have been easier 
So here's a great article that demystifies character encoding: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/...ter-encodings/
If you're a programmer and don't know about character encoding, then that article is a very nice place to start. Most of the time you probably won't have to worry about it, but there'll probably come a time that you'll want to know this kind of information. |
