On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:08 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote: > 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 > I don't use the higher range of characters often, but I do sometimes use them for things like the graphical glyphs (½✉✆, etc) I know I could do those with regular text and the Wingdings font, but that's not available on every computer, and breaks the semantic meaning behind the glyphs. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
