A while back I ran into a problem with PHP, how can I read in files that have double byte (unicode) characters and display them in a form that any browser can read. Most programming languages don't handle these characters very well, and end up with non sense instead of passing through the correct text.

I've written a crude datacenter checker. Unfortunately I cannot host it for everyone as Google would ban my server's IP, so I've packaged up the code so anyone can run it.

googlecheck.zip

Due to the lack of data from NZ Post, I've created this mysql database from the PDF on the NZ Post website.