You'll have to read the cookie spec to confirm, but I'm pretty sure it
either specifically disallows other charsets, or at least predates the
globalization/i18n efforts...
IOW, you can't...
You COULD just use session_start() and let them have the PHP cookie,
and then store whatever string you want in $_SESSION['UserName']
On Mon, October 2, 2006 5:15 pm, Ahmad Al-Twaijiry wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> in my PHP code I use the following command to set a cookie with
> non-english word (UTF-8) :
>
> @setcookie ("UserName",$Check[1]);
>
> and in my html page I get this cookie using javascript :
>
> <script charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> function getCookie (name)
> {
>
> var dc = document.cookie;
> var prefix = name + "=";
> var begin = dc.indexOf("; " + prefix);
> if (begin == -1) {
> begin = dc.indexOf(prefix);
> if (begin != 0) return null;
> } else {
> begin += 2;
> }
> var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin);
> if (end == -1) {
> end = dc.length;
> }
> return unescape(dc.substring(begin + prefix.length, end));
>
> }
> var UserName = getCookie("UserName");
> document.write(UserName);
>
> --> </script>
>
> but the result from writing the cookie using javascript is garbage, I
> don't get the right word !!
>
> anyone know how to resolve it ?
>
> BTW:
> * I also tried the php function setrawcookie and I get the same
> problem
> * I use <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
> charset=utf-8"> in my page
>
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>
> Ahmad Fahad AlTwaijiry
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