Handle foreign character web input
Tobiah
toby at tobiah.org
Fri Jun 28 16:25:37 EDT 2019
A guy comes in and enters his last name as RĂ–nngren.
So what did the browser really give me; is it encoded
in some way, like latin-1? Does it depend on whether
the name was cut and pasted from a Word doc. etc?
Should I handle these internally as unicode? Right
now my database tables are latin-1 and things seem
to usually work, but not always.
Also, what do people do when searching for a record.
Is there some way to get 'Ronngren' to match the other
possible foreign spellings?
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