On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Guus Ellenkamp <Ellenkamp_Guus@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Thanks, but are you sure of that? I did some research a while ago and found > that officially PHP files should be ascii and not have any specific > character encoding. I believe it will work anyhow (did not try this one), > but would like to stick with the standards. > > "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:1274883714.2202.228.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 22:20 +0800, Guus Ellenkamp wrote: > > > >> 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 files can contain utf-8, and in-fact is the preference of most > > developers I know of. > > > > Thanks, > > Ash > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Because the lower range of UTF-8 matches the ascii character set (intentionally by design), you'll be able to use UTF-8 for PHP files without problem (i.e., ascii 7-bit chars have same encoding in UTF-8.) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html However, if you were to use any of the multibyte characters of UTF-8 in a PHP file, you could run in to some trouble. I use UTF-8 for most of my PHP files, but I've been sticking to the ASCII subset exclusively. Adam -- Nephtali: PHP web framework that functions beautifully http://nephtaliproject.com
