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| DJ Bouche Posts: 41/111 |
Originally posted by Arthus Just change that to <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> and you're all good. (might not have the hyphen, I can't actually remember and yes I'm lazy too look it up) | ||||
| HyperHacker Posts: 615/5072 |
Originally posted by Xkeeper Look who you're talking to.  | ||||
| ||bass Posts: 40/594 |
The database has been utf8 since I converted it nearly a year ago. It's just an issue of adding the meta tags. | ||||
| Arthus Posts: 30/142 |
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Posts: 859/5653 most (all) of the MySQL information is "collate_utf_8" or something...
| And if you actually wanted me to do anything, you'd provide the meta tag. You forgot somethig very very important: I'm lazy. DJ Bouche |
Posts: 40/111 It's only as easy as adding something to a meta tag at the top of the layout and changing MySQL language to English UTF8 (and maybe apply ANSI->UTF8 conversion on all current text fields, I'm sure theres a character encoding conversion function of some sort.) The result is anyone and everyone can post and view (given you have the required fonts) any language in the entire world in it's native script (given that it's characters are in unicode |  ). I've seen quite a few people use Japanese or such in there signature, and I'm sure posting a certain kanji for someone (eg, for a Japanese lesson thread) would be easier by text than having to upload an image. Also for people using the Japanese SJIS code-page extended ASCII characters wouldn't look like garbage kanji. Thus it keeps everyone compatible with each other and everyone happy. If you don't possess a certain necessary font then you'll see blocks, but at least it isn't AOJ%QPO^MBIWP$OIB^MAOMPB^, or the wrong amount of characters anyway.
So what is UTF8 exactly? As you know unicode is usually made up of 16-bit characters, no matter what subset the character comes from. There are also newer unicode character subranges that use 24 or higher number of bits, though. UTF8 allows all normal ASCII from 0-127 to be stored as 8-bit characters without the most significant bit set, while 128-255 (MSB is set) are reserved for unicode characters. They allow unicode characters from 16-32-bit to be encoded while also preserving the original ascii extended character set (which are assigned elsewhere on the unicode table). No this won't change the way you type, your Alt sequences will still give out the same character, it'll just be mapped to it's unicode equivalent. Why UTF8? I mean UTF16 and shit is so much leeter dude... well UTF8 keeps the most compatibility with the ASCII character set we all know and love. Moving to UTF8 is a worthwile upgrade and it's best to do it now rather than later while we haven't grown all too big. Don't be left behind in the dark like mIRC and other things who have kept to their non-Unicode standards (of course some not intentionally due to limitations). I don't think there is a limitation on movement here. Now, I know I'm rambling on a lot and I'm not trying to take over the board or anything. This IS a suggestion forum, so I will make a suggestion and back it up to why it is a useful suggestion and now you people can come to play to agree or disagree, correct, criticize and all the lot.  |
