March 13-15, 2019
Montreal, Canada

How to tame a UNICORN_FACE

In this session we’ll see where weird characters like “?” or “ö” come from and how we can avoid them. Along the way we’ll tackle the history and the oddities of character handling at all relevant levels. May that be code, database or files. And in the end you’ll be able to tame all emojis ????

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Andreas Heigl

stella-maris.solutions

Andreas helps solving problems via his company stella-maris.solutions. He sometimes even uses code for that. His special interests are in weird topics like time and calendars, odd technologies like LDAP and organizational challenges related to remote work. Besides his family and contributions to different open-source-projects he still finds the time to co-run PHPUGFFM, the PHP-Usergroup in Frankfurt/Main and maintain PHP.ug.

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