Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 3 – Right-to-Left vs. Left-to-Right

The problem     When developing a website for Hebrew and other languages, there is an additional issue to deal with.  If all the languages are left-to-right, then it is straightforward to use the same template or design with all languages.  All that needs to be switched when the site is viewed in a different …

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 …