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by jaycangel
Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:17 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

Seems that php from v 6 will have Unicode encoding built in. It's always sods law that what you want is always in the next version

http://www.zend.com/zend/week/php-unicode-design.txt

Is an interesting article on the new unicode support
by jaycangel
Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:02 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

If you wouldn't mind telling me: how does it kill then? Does it strip them out, or does it not convert them. I found that html_entities doesn't convert some Russian characters that some of my users have entered. For example о is how I receive data entered into a normal text field (I've done no conve...
by jaycangel
Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:16 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

cool thanks, i hadn't checked what my files were saved in!
by jaycangel
Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:40 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

So far this is what i've found out through my research Header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Tag in xHTML page <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> Tag in xml document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> attribute in...
by jaycangel
Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:20 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

I've just read through one of those links and am a bit confused by this The character set defined in [ISO10646] is character-by-character equivalent to Unicode ([UNICODE]). Both of these standards are updated from time to time with new characters, and the amendments should be consulted at the respec...
by jaycangel
Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:09 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

Thanks, I wasn't aware that you could put a char set on a form. I had wondered how you would specify what char set data was sent to the server. I thought it would take it from the HTML Meta tag.
by jaycangel
Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:08 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8
Replies: 17
Views: 4935

Multilanguage Best Practices / UTF8

I'm designing a system that currently will be for Western based character sets but will soon be expanding into Russian and other type of characters. I was wondering what practices there are that will best future proof your code and data. I’ve identified the following places where character sets ofte...