From PHPKitchen today, there is this new post with a pointer to a presentation made at the latest PHP London meetup - "Some Internationalization Hints" (by Jon Ramsey).

He looks into things such as: coded character sets (encodings), unicode, how apps handle the different characters (PHP, Apache, MySQL), and, of course, links to several resources to site with more information.

This is one thing that PHP seems to be lacking in a bit - or at least I haven't seen that much of a push for sites to accept much in the way of character sets outside their own native language. Someone out there prove me wrong and show me a PHP app that helps with this kind of thing...or does everyone just use UTF-8 and be done with it?