php mysql character set: storing html of international content

Question

i\'m completely confused by what i\'ve read about character sets. I\'m developing an interface to store french text formatted in html inside a mysql database.

What i

Answer 1

I strongly recomend to read this article "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" by Joel Spolsky, to understand what are you doing and why.