Tag Archives: utf-8

Learning from your mistakes: mixed character sets in MySQL

Character sets are a big thing these days and luckily we’re slowly evolving to a world where UTF-8 rules. In the meanwhile we’re stuck in a transitional phase where the ISO-8859-1 encoding is still used. MySQL followed this trend and introduced character set support in version 4.1. Importing data from older versions is easy and …

December 6, 2009 – 9:22 pm | By Thijs | Posted in MySQL, PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Speaking at PHPBelgium user group meeting

Next Wednesday, PHPBelgium is having another user group meeting. This spring edition takes place in Gent again and will feature 2 talks including mine on command line PHP called CLI, the other SAPI.

April 17, 2009 – 12:41 pm | By Thijs | Posted in CLI, PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)