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gotze
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May 22, 2004, 7:28 AM

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I think UTF-8 is the preferred character encoding for web services.

LSQL works with anything, I guess, but since content is mostly created via form inputs via Windows machines, I don't think we have UTF-8 in the database, and should perhaps make a "purification filter" of kinds?

Alex, Dat, any thoughts?

gotze
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May 22, 2004, 8:44 AM

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Speaking of which ...
http://www.cadenhead.org/...sql-data-in-rss.html

In PHP, it's just a matter of :

function cleanText($intext) {
return utf8_encode(
htmlspecialchars(
stripslashes($intext)));
}

What do you do in Perl?

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