Integrating Korean into a MySQL db

Have network of European languages sites

[louponne]

As I said, I have a network of European-language sites that are all displaying data from a centralized database. Now, I need to add a Korean-language site to the network.

As I understand it, I'd need to "translate" the MySQL database into unicode for it to support Korean characters. But then, aren't I going to run into browser-compatibility problems with all the rest of the sites?

[Timotheos]

Hi louponne,

As I understand it, if you're planning to do comparisons or searching with mySQL then you'll need the UTF-8 support for it to work properly in a multibyte language like Korean. This could be done on the PHP side if push came to shove.

That said, if your character set is ISO-8859-1 then you shouldn't have any problem converting over to Unicode. Info [unicodecharacter.com]

Tim

[louponne]

That said, if your character set is ISO-8859-1 then you shouldn't have any problem converting over to Unicode.

Yes, but if I convert to Unicode, don't I have to change the charset on all my php pages to display it correctly in browsers? - And then I thought that only very recent browsers support Unicode, no?