help with a cufon function...

[Imaulle]

Can someone help me figure out what this does exactly and is it possible to do the same thing without using mb_convert_encoding? I need to be able to do this function without that lib

 

public static function getCodePoint($char)
{
$cp = unpack('N', mb_convert_encoding($char, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8'));
return $cp[1];
}

 

This is from the Cufon generator code that converts ttf to js... Thanks!

[Imaulle]

upon further investigating I've found out that it's a unicode-friendly version of ord().

- mb_convert_encoding($char, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8') converts a UTF-8 character to UCS-4BE.

- UCS-4BE is 32-bit unicode big endian.

- unpack unpacks binary data into an associative array.

- N specifies unsigned long 32-bit big endian as the format.

- $cp[1] returns the second index of the associative array.

 

 

However I'm still unable to figure out how to do this without using mb_convert_encoding.... Anyone got any ideas?

[xyph]

Have you tried the iconv set of functions?

 

iconv( 'UTF-8','UCS-4BE',$str );