utf8 php and japanese

[tallberg]

Hi

 

Im trying to convert a site into japanese.

I found out that if the php page is in uft8 then it will display the charecters.

However, when i convert my php page with a shopping cart and other related functions

I get the errror message

 

Content Encoding Error

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

 

Any ideas how i can retain my php functionality and use utf8 to display japanese?

[Zyx]

For such languages as Chinese or Japanese, UTF-8 is not an optimal encoding, as it is optimized for displaying primarily latin characters. I would recommend using UTF-16. Note that you must inform the browser in a HTTP header that you are using this encoding. META tag is not enough:

 

header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-16');

[tallberg]

Thank you for your reply.

 

Ive put header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-16'); in and changed the meta tag

and now the japanese displays but all the mark up is lost.

It looks like the mark up is being converted into japanese.

 

Any ideas?

[satya61229]

Not sure but please check you are using the right editor which understand the utf-8, utf-16. and if it understand then save it in right encoding also.