For a client of mine I need to introduce Chinese language support in a web portal. This web portal, written in PHP + MySQL is already available in a number of European languages (English, Spanish, German...). However my client needs this portal to be available in Chinese as well. Content will be translated using a a simple HTML form. The translated versions of blocks of text are stored into the MySQL database.
I already know that Chinese people either use Pinyin (romanized Chinese), or Wubi to write in their language using a normal European alphabet keyboard. I also know that Unicode (UTF8) is widely used to properly display Chinese characters on web pages, emails, etc.
So the procedure is Pinyin - Unicode - Chinese characters. The missing link for me still is the step between Pinyin and Unicode.
ANy help will be very much appreciated.
Best regards