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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/04/06 22:53
royend@gmail.com <royend@gmail.com> scripsit:
> I am having problems sending values from a simple FORM to a database.
We all do. Use UTF-8, Luke, but make sure your form handler can actually
process UTF-8 encoded data.
> It worked for several years, but now it won't accept international
> characters.
Quite mysterious, isn't it? You surely have much more details about the
issue than we do, so the odds of getting help without telling more are
minuscule.
> This means that the Norwegian word for boat "BÅT" ends up
> like "BT" since the "Å" isn't sent.
Actually, "Å" is a rather _national_ character, used in a few languages
only. Sorry, this is just my usual ranting about the misguided term
"international" when it means "national" (or "other than English").
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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