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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes:
>> On 1/3/2014 9:30 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> <snip>
>>> You really only need UTF-8 in the database.  The page encoding is not
>>> that important.
>>
>> I beg to differ.  Page encoding is important if you want the correct
>> characters displayed.
> 
> It's important, but not *that* important.  The OP says that changing it
> is not an option, so I gave an example of how one can finesse the page
> encoding entirely -- by converting data you take from the data base to
> ASCII.

You can do that – at the risk of increasing the server-side runtime and 
memory usage of the PHP program, the size of the output, the loading and 
rendering time, and memory usage of the document client-side, considerably, 
to no substantial advantage.  It is the *World Wide* Web, and for that 
reason alone UTF-8 support is ubiquitous there since years.


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