Hello, I am currently working on a multilingual app, so i thaught i could share some of the knowledge i have accumulated on the subject in the last months, After a lot of searching and testing i ended up using the following configuration: A full unicode (UTF-8) environment PHP 5 OOP + a template engine -->always seperate html from coding, - use the mb_string extension (best way is to overload string functions with mb in php_ini with mbstring.func_overload = 7) set internal encoding to utf-8 - disable automatic sending of content-type header from php (php.ini) - in your html templates add this meta <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> and whatever attribute you need to your <html> element (lang, dir) - add "accept-charset=utf-8" attribute to your <form> elements to make them only accept utf-8 text - One important thing to remember, is that php has no problem manipulating Multibyte strings (like utf-8) through mb_string but php scripts have to be written in latin1 --> always pay attention to strings you might use in your scripts (EX: translate Error messages to their html equivalent, or load them from a file...) - seperating html from php: this is particularly usefull when it comes to developing stuff for many possible languages, To introduce a new language, all you need to do is to customize a set of plain html template files to the new language et voila! Finally, use the new mysqli extention to connect to mysql 4.1 Mysql 4.1 --> configured with --default-character-set=utf8, when you connect to the server always send this query first : "SET names=UTF8" to make php's mysqli extention use UTF8 for connection ------------------------------------------------ Using this approach gives you all the advantages of unicode (language independance....) and mysql ( fulltext searching....) and the flexibily of php Hope it helps Regards; Hassan El Forkani http://www.InfoChallenge.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Bennett" <JBennett@Earthling.net> To: <php-objects@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:21 AM Subject: Re: Multi Lingual Sites > > >Do I need to make any other considerations? > > > Money, date, and number formats if there are any variables that display > these things. > > good luck. > > -jmb > > > > > PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.775 / Virus Database: 522 - Release Date: 08/10/2004 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/saFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
