Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 2 – database connection character sets for MySQL

The problem     Ok.  I did everything it said in the previous article, and both my database and my site are working in UTF-8.  Still, anything in Hebrew I enter into PHPMyAdmin comes up as question marks on my site.  If I enter in data from the website, it comes up as gibberish on …

Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 1

In today’s World Wide Web, people expect to read websites in their own language.  Many Israeli websites now appear in Hebrew for Israelis, in English for the international community, and in other languages, such as Russian or Arabic.  To make a website work properly in many languages, one must take care of a few issues.  …