sjb500 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Hi I'm fairly new to php coding and I've recently inherited a php site with a backend mysql database. Some of the legacy client data represents Japanese characters and on a simple php page I am trying to get these characters to display properly. I've stripped down the problem page and produced a simple test . However the best I've been able to do is get a couple of characters to show while the remainder remain as square blocks. My code is <?php header('Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8'); echo "<html><head><style type='text/css'>th,td {border:solid 1px silver}</style></head><body style=\"font-family: Arial Unicode MS\"><h1>Report</h1>"; echo 'アクセスは撥ねりません。'; function hex2str($hex) { $r = ''; for ($i = 0; $i<strlen($hex)-1;$i+=2)$r .= chr(hexdec($hex[$i] . $hex[$i + 1])); return $r; } function unicode_decode($str) { return preg_replace("/\%u([0-9A-F]{4})/ie","iconv('utf-16', 'utf-8', hex2str(\"$1\"))", $str); } echo "<font size='24px'>"; echo unicode_decode("%u85E4%u7530%u5316%u6210%u682A%u5F0F%u4F1A%u793E"); echo "</font>"; echo "</body></html"; The first (japanese)echo statement works fine but the second one, where I run it through a decoder, has the problem . Has anyone had any experience of this problem? Thanks Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/196878-problem-with-japanese-characters/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocpaul20 Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Can you imagine Japanese people coding in this way? I cant!! There must be a simpler way and I think you maybe trying something too complicated. Perhaps return to basics and just try displaying the characters in the browser as they come out of the database and see what happens. As long as you have utf-8 character encoding you should be OK as far as I know. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/196878-problem-with-japanese-characters/#findComment-1033906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjb500 Posted March 30, 2010 Author Share Posted March 30, 2010 That's the problem though they don't get rendered when just spat out via a printf statement. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/196878-problem-with-japanese-characters/#findComment-1034000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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