14 Making Universal Sites
The biggest change in version 6 of PHP is support for Unicode. But what is Unicode and why should you care? In this chapter, I’ll answer those questions, and show you how you might change your Web sites using this new information. But as a preview, if you’d like your Web sites to be usable by people that don’t speak the same language as you, or if you don’t feel like always programming in your non-native language, keep reading!
This chapter goes over several subjects, all with the goal of making a more global Web site. The bulk of these topics involve text: character sets, encodings, collation, transliteration, and Unicode. These topics apply to PHP, MySQL, HTML, and even the application you create your PHP scripts ...
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