diacritics

I'm trying to save French accents in my database, but they aren't saved like they should in the DB. For example, a "é" is saved as "é". I've tried to set my files to "Unicode (utf-8)", the fields in the DB are "utf8_general_ci" as well as the DB itself. When I look at my data posted through AJAX with Firebug, I see the accent passed as "é", so it's correct. Thanks and let me know you need more info! Olivier Kaisin Personally I solved the same issue by adding after the MySQL connection code : mysql_set_charset("utf8"); or for mysqli: mysqli_set_charset($conn, "utf8"); or the mysqli OOP

The character pictured above was tweeted a few months ago by Mikko Hyppönen , a computer security expert known for his work on computer viruses and TED talks on computer security. In respect for SO, I will only post an image of it, but you get the idea. It's obviously not something you'd want spreading around your website and freaking out visitors. Upon further inspection, the character appears to be a letter of the Thai alphabet combined with over 87 diacritics (is there even a limit?!). This got me thinking about security, localization, and how one might handle this sort of input. My

I'm trying to gather a Unicode list of all the 'o' like shapes in the Hindi character-set. In fact, a list of any characters (in any language) that makes uses of separate characters to indicate an accent would be better. I intend to use this unicode-list in a RegExp. I been trying to edit a list of character-ranges by outputting them in an Input TextField, but editing this text causes weird issues (the keyboard-cursor isn't place on the correct character, selections suddenly dissappear / incorrectly warps... in other words... HINDI HELL!) I've tried this with Notepad++ too, but although it was