character encoding

James Cohen has a recent post to his blog looking at a way you can avoid some of the character encoding problems in PHP that can come with working with multiple character sets.

Read Ruby is an online "book" about Ruby 1.9 in a mostly referential style.

It's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license so is reasonably "free" if you want to make and share changes, as long as you're not doing so for profit.

As he mentioned in a previous entry on his blog, Pablo Viquez found a few issues with character encoding and the json_encode function.

He revisits this in a second look at getting it to cooperate with ISO-8859-1 data.

After spotting some null values in a few of his form fields following an Ajax request, Pablo Viquez decided to track down his issue:

Sankuru: "After migrating a joomla installation from version 1.0 to 1.5, I came across a particularly annoying issue: the following characters showed up in error in the browser: left single quote, right single quote, left double quote, right double quote, emdash."