ISO8859-1 to UTF-8
In an attempt simplify futher developement on DRlistings.com, we have decided to change the default charactor set of our web site. First, it makes the links directory render correctly i.e. without the strange charactors that were appearing for the foreign language as this tool is setup to work in UTF-8 by default. The new Dominican Republic News had this same requirement.
For the English reader, it doesn’t make much difference but for the Latin languages it does make a difference.
It was also required to simplify the use of the URL Rewriting that we are using now extensively.
From our clients point of view, it doesn’t make any difference also since it doesn’t involve any new particular attention when they edit their listings.
We may explain later, in french, how this was done and how easy it was to implement it. But the article will be submitted to Paul’s web space on MSN Space.
See ya!