Hello Guus, Actually, we are using the same method here on http://oire.org/. We have all of the language files in UTF8 format and everything seems to be OK. Yes, unicode support in PHp laisse à désirer, like the French say, but it does support UTF8 files. -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile; Wlm&MSN: arthaelon @ yandex.ru; Jabber: arthaelon @ jabber.org Yahoo! messenger: andre.polykanine; ICQ: 191749952 Twitter: m_elensule ----- Original message ----- From: Guus Ellenkamp <Ellenkamp_Guus@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 5:20:59 PM Subject: Convert UTF-8 to PHP defines We use PHP defines for defining text in different languages. As far as I know PHP files are supposed to be ASCII, not UTF-8 or something like that. What I want to make is a conversion program that would convert a given UTF-8 file with the format definetext1=this is a text in random UTF-8, probably arabic or similar text definetext2=this is another text in random UTF-8, probably arabic or similar text into a file with the following defines define('definetext1',chr(<t_value>).chr(<h_value>).chr(<i_value>)...<chr(<x_value>).chr(<t_value>)); define('definetext2,chr(<t_value>).chr(<h_value>).chr(<i_value>)...<chr(<x_value>).chr(<t_value>)); Not sure if I'm using the correct chr/ord function, but I hope the above is clear enough to make clear what I'm looking for. Basically the output file should be ascii and not contain any utf-8. Any advise? The html_special_chars did not seem to work for Vietnamese text I tried to convert, so something seems to get wrong with just reading an array of strings and converting the strings and putting them in defines. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php