random1 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I have recently read about UTF-8 page encoding: http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html I have made the switch following it's instructions. I have the chinese text example 1: 激光, 這兩個字是甚麼意思 and chinese text example 2: 激光, 這兩個字是甚麼意思 How do I get the text text from example 1 to be automatically transformed into 2 using PHP? Is UTF-8 the best? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random1 Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 Has anyone used UTF-8 in a database and had foriegn characters working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfreaks Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 UTF-8 is the standard and most characters work to my knowledge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Actually if you are making asian language websites, utf-8 encoding is not recommended at all. PHP does not collate the characters properly, and as a result searching and the like can be unreliable. If the goal is just to be able to display asian characters, then utf-8 will work, but if the site is to be an asian language site, then EUC-CN encoding should be used for chinese and EUC-JP for Japanese. These should be used as the internal PHP programming charset, and the database should also be set to this encoding. The output language should be Shift-JIS for Japanese, although I am not 100% sure what it should be for Chinese. I think either Big5 or just stick with EUC-CN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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