joindin/joind.in — pull request #446 by jaytaph (2011-11-13 10:16:50+00:00)
Title: Let the database return UTF-8

The database connection was set to the default character set. This normally isn't utf-8.

With the help of a SET NAMES UTF-8, all data returned by the database is transferred using utf8. The application doesn't have to convert data manually this way (this WILL have some impact using strlen() and such function, but nobody I know really takes care of that).

Another thing I've changed is the string transformation in the view from ISO-8859-1 to UTF8, since we are dealing with UTF8 of course. I could not find any (relevant) other references to 8859.