3 simple things you must absolutely do when starting an i18n PHP-MySQL Application

These are 3 simple things to do that will not take much of your time before starting on your project.

• Make sure the database is in UTF-8 format when you create it
• Make sure the MySQL connection uses UTF-8
• Make sure you use UTF-8 encoded files

Many unnecessary and hard to debug bugs could be avoided if you do these 3 things.