Kore Nordmann has published a new FAQ on some common questions he gets about character sets and content encoding.

After lots of questions recently on IRC about charsets and encodings, I decided to write up a FAQ about this. The FAQ can now be found in the article section of my website.

Questions answered include "What is the difference between unicode and UTF-8/UTF-16/...?" and "What does "multibyte charset/encoding" mean?" as well as topics like transliteration and character set support in PHP.

The International PHP Magazine has wrapped up another pool this week - one that asked the question of what (of their choices) was the most common design pattern out there.

Choices for the poll were:

• Factory pattern
• Singleton pattern
• Observer Pattern
• Decorator Pattern
• Others

Top on the list was the Singleton pattern by a wide berth. Below it, coming in nearly twenty percent less was the Factory Pattern.

Be sure to check out and vote on this week's poll that asks, out of the given list of FAQ management applications, which does it the most effectively.