submitting japanese text. how to do it ?

[anatak]

Hello,

I am trying to make a form where the button will display the action (submit, clear, send, send password) in the language the user selects.
I am trying to get this to work with english and japanese to start.
the english version works but the japanese not
Does anybody know what exactly happens when a string is submitted with a <form method="POST">

the first function is to determine if a user has set a language or has submitted a change for the language.
the second funtion is to display the dropdown menu.
the funtcion $case=button_caption(3); gets the caption out of a mysql database and is the caption displayed on the button.

I am getting desperate and thinking about giving up on multilanguage forms. (IF ONLY IE supported buttons decently)

I would be very thankfull if anyone can show me a way (any way) how to make a button with different language captions.
Maybe it can be done using images with the caption ?

Thank you for looking
anatak

[code]
<?php
//- language_set() //set the language session var if not defined or changes the session var
//- language_dropdown() //displays the dropdown menu for the languages


function language_set()
{
if(!isset($_REQUEST['submit'])){
echo "geen request submit<br />";
if(!isset($_SESSION['userlanguage'])){
$_SESSION['userlanguage']='001'; //default English
}
}else{
$submit=$_REQUEST['submit'];
echo "submit: " . $submit."<br />";
$case=button_caption(3);
// $case="'".$case."'";
echo "case: ".$case."<br />";
if ($submit==$case){echo "submit == case<br />";}
if($_REQUEST['submit']==$case){
echo "submit in case= ".$_REQUEST['submit']."<br />";
$_SESSION['userlanguage']=$_POST['Language'];
echo "language= " . $_SESSION['userlanguage']."<br />";
}
}
}



function language_dropdown()
{
//select all the available languages
$Table01 = "language";
$Query01 = "SELECT * FROM $Table01
WHERE LanguageHide = 1
ORDER BY LanguageLan_Language;";

$Table02 = "language_button";
$language = "Lan_ButLan".$_SESSION['userlanguage'];
$Query02 = "SELECT Lan_ButValue, $language FROM $Table02
WHERE Lan_ButId=3";

// echo $Query02;
//open read connection
read_connection();
//execute query
$Result01 = mysql_query($Query01) or die(mysql_error());
$Result02 = select_1_row_check($Query02);
//close read connection
read_close();
if (gettype($Result02)== 'string'){
echo 'there was a problem please contact the administrator with the following message: ';
echo $Result02;
}else{
$Row02 = mysql_fetch_array($Result02);
}
?>
<form method="POST" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=index"; ?>" >
<table>
<tr><td>Select your language</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<select name="Language">
<?php
//get results in row and display row
while($Row01 = mysql_fetch_array($Result01)){

?> <option value="<?php echo $Row01['LanguageLan_Nr']; ?>"><?php echo $Row01['LanguageLan_Language']; ?></option>
<?php
}
?>
</select>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<?php $button=button_caption(3); ?>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="<?php echo $button; ?>">
<br /><a href="<?php echo $button; ?>"><?php echo $button; ?></a>

<?php echo "<br />test".$button=button_caption(3); ?>

</td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php
}


?>
[/code]

[Daniel0]

Try to change the encoding to utf-8:

[code]header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");[/code]

Note: Put this BEFORE anything is output.

[anatak]

I have this as header
[code]
<?php
session_start();
//IE6 session fix
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8; Cache-control: private");

[/code]

but it does not make any difference
befor I had this in my HTML
[code]
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
[/code]

[extrovertive]

Try

EUC-JP

as the character set.

You may look into the

"mb_convert_encoding" function

[anatak]

Thank you for the suggesting but I have to keep everything in UTF-8 as the website has to be able to switch between languages.
changing the character set to EUC-JP is really not a good thing to do I think.

I guess there is not a real way around my problem.