How to properly handle international character in PHP / MySQL / Apache

Question

I need to create an application in PHP that can handle all Unicode characters in all places — edit fields, static HTML, database. Can somebody tell me the complete list of a

Answer 1

Important: You should also ensure that you use UTF-8 as connection charset when connecting to Mysql from PHP!

For mysqli this is done by

mysqli_set_charset($dblink, 'utf-8')

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php