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Alex Kirk

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   ## 󠀁[PHP and Multibyte](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/04/05/php-and-multibyte/)󠁿
   
 * ever messed around with umlauts or other non [a-z] letters? it’s quite horrible.
   for the german speaking region there are mainly two encoding types: iso8859-1
   and utf-8. the former encodes each letter with one byte by extending old 7-bit
   ascii with 127 more letters, amongst others also umlauts. utf-8 includes up to
   32,640 more letters…
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   ## 󠀁[live search](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/03/23/live-search/)󠁿
   
 * I have just integrated a cool new feature into bandnews: while typing, matching
   bands are now displayed underneath the searchbox. cool and fast alternative to
   the band dropdown.

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