Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sat Oct 11 04:06:59 CDT 2003
Hi all Joel Spolsky has some comments on PHP, internationalization, Unicode and character sets. /gustav --- From: Joel On Software <fogcreek at whatcounts.com> Date: Saturday, October 11, 2003, 1:47:53 AM Subject: [JoelOnSoftware] Unicode and Character Sets When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough. So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Joel Spolsky spolsky at fogcreek.com