Database

Any international programmer will one day be confronted with the problem of handling languages other than English. These contain many diacritics and other letters or symbols which do not exist in the English language. When it goes wrong, things can get very ugly, with strange characters (examples: ¶, é, â, ÃŒ, ü, �, ë, ®, â��, ï) appearing in your database. How do you avoid data corruption and other problems related to character encoding? We won't be explaining everything in-depth, but provide some quick and easy pointers which allow you to get started right away.