On 28 May 2010 04:47, Guus Ellenkamp <Ellenkamp_Guus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And I need(ed) this stuff especially for non-ASCII characters like Chinese, > Arabic and stuff :) > > "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:1274976794.2202.274.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Do you mean ... <?php echo '早晨好'; ?> If you cut and paste that into your editor, make sure that the font you are using is a UTF-8 font. Otherwise you will see the font's unknown symbol glyph rather than the correct ones. If your font doesn't have the symbols, it doesn't affect the code. The editor is only displaying the code. It doesn't alter the code. Richard. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
