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Originally aired on

May 30th, 2016

046: Character Encoding and UTF-8 in PHP

If you've ever gotten a number of weird looking characters in your database or on your website like, "" and didn't know why, then this episode is for you. Those bizarre chara

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Character Encoding and UTF-8 in PHP Show Summary


What are character encodings?

  • Comparison of number systems (base-10, binary, hexadecimal)
  • Historical development of character maps and encodings (telegram, ASCII, ISO-8859-1...)
  • Unicode and its implementations (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32)
    • UT

Developer Shout-Out

Thank you, Michael Cullum for your excellent cat herding skills and work on @phpfig 3.0. A $50 Amazon gift card from Laracasts is on its way to you.

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Panelists

Andreas Heigl



Show Notes Credit

Thank you Dominic Bordelon for authoring the show notes for this episode!

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