Everything you always wanted to know about UTF-8 (but never dared to ask)

Description

For any application with even the remotest ambition of international use, the only way to go is to use UTF-8. And even without that ambition, using UTF-8 might still bring you more benefits than you currently realize. Unfortunately most developers at one point or another run into problems implementing UTF-8 and get discouraged. That ends now! In this talk I will cover UTF-8 from the basic linguistics, through client-side aspects to all the steps you need to take to tackle the most common (and some more obscure) issues when using UTF-8 in a database driven web application.

Conférence donnée lors du PHP Tour Lyon 2014, ayant eu lieu les 24 et 25 juin 2014.

Informations complémentaires

Slides
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Audio : anglais

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Le speaker

Juliette REINDERS FOLMER

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Juliette is an all round consultant and web-developer who tries not be a geek. Having started with client-side web development in 2000, she furtively tried to avoid server-side web until she was forced to learn PHP at knife-point in 2002 and found herself hooked quite quickly. As she herself would put it 'It is more fun than Sudoku, and just as challenging to get it right'. She actively contributes to a number of open source projects, has published several articles and speaks at conferences. Juliette is self-employed and based in the Netherlands.

Commentaires

excellent presentation but sadly not finish. hope the slides will be available online. Thanks.

Fox074, le 25/06/2014

So interesting! Too bad you didn't have a one hour and a half slot to finish your slideshow. => So frustrating! Hope you will do it (fully) again at a time/place I can attend

Vincent Lepot, le 25/06/2014

Your conference was the first time I actually got a wee bit the feeling I start to understand encoding / charsets andsoforth. Really a shame we didn't have the time to finish!

Steven VAN POECK, le 25/06/2014

Interesting but need more time to finish Maybe the slides are online ?

rebolon, le 25/06/2014

A great conference, that every developer should see, so all these WTFs related to encoding could finally go away. Plus Juliette is a very funny and kind person, always available after her presentation.

Clement Herreman, le 25/06/2014

Must see!

Thierry Marianne, le 26/06/2014