Dominating the World

This session instructs on how to handle multi-lingual, multi-locale and
multi-charset issues with PHP. This means an introduction to Unicode and
different character encodings; locale issues such as sorting order, comparing
strings, date/time formats and converting to upper-/lowercase in different
languages; the use of the iconv/mbstring extensions for converting between
charactersets and automatic ways of converting to the correct output character
set even if the internal character set is totally different, or even consists
of different sets. With the increasing globalization in online commerce, those
issues should be mastered by a PHP developer who wants to dominate the world.