'm working on a Macromedia Flash interface which allows staff members to enter and edit long passages of text. It uses PHP (AMFPHP) to store this data in a MySQL database. The data is then searchable and displayed on their website
Content management:
Flash -> PHP -> MySQL
Search & display on site
MySQL -> PHP
This app now needs to support the maori language which contains macrons.
I'm trying to figure out what options I have
Do I need to parse macron text entered via flash into correct unicode entities and store that (which won't be searchable) or can I simply store what they enter and parse on display?
Has anyone dealt with something like this before? if so, could you offer any suggestions?