[TYPO3-english] vge_tagcloud and proper handling of UTF-8 tags

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 12-4-2011 22:29, François Suter wrote:
> when "à" is converted to latin-1 (which is what PHP's regexp functions
> do - unfortunately)

PHP regexps do not convert anything, they are just not UTF-8 aware. In 
fact PHP is not character set / encoding aware at all.

There is however an easy solution: use the modifier 'u'. [1] It can 
reduce performance, but at least you have a UTF-8 aware regular expression.

[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

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Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet,

Jigal van Hemert.