UNICODE + PHP for English Speakers
summary
Explains how characters and encodings (Unicode, UTF-8, ASCII, ISO 10646, BOM, multibyte, collation, etc.) are stored and represented, and demonstrates handling Unicode and multibyte characters in PHP. Shows flawed code snippets and fixes, and covers I/O concerns—file read/write and database connections—plus best practices for accepting, sanitizing, storing, and presenting diverse characters (including emoji).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:09Morse Code represents English characters and numbers with short and long pulses
- 1:48Character Encoding
- 4:05ASCII Standard Binary 13
- 10:47Code Points 5 D
- 19:49How do you type Unicode characters in PHP?
- 22:02How do you type Unicode characters in HTML?
- 22:41Tell browsers you are using UTF-8
- 23:26PHP treats every byte as a single character
- 26:15Use PHP Multi-Byte extension (mb_*)
- 29:55Detect and encode incoming data in UTF-8
- 30:45Regular Expressions with Unicode
- 33:35Unicode with MySQL
- 38:21Unicode + Security
