Re: [PHPwestoz] Stràngê chàràctëres §§§

[Adam Ashley <adam_ashley@softhome.net>]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:01 +0800, Samuel Cochran wrote:
> Adam Ashley wrote:
> 
> >Nicolas Connault wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I'm working on an I18n solution for my auction project, French-English. 
> >>However, French is full of funny chÃrÃctÃrs which get into the database 
> >>fine, but get output as basic characters when retrieved by PHP . . . 
> >>(like ch?r?ct?rs).
> >>
> ><snip>
> >
> >PHP itself is fully unicode compatible.
> >
> Actually, it's not. PHP is extremely ugly when it comes to unicode. This 
> is stated in the manual when looking up Strings:
> 
> A *string* <http://au2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php> is 
> series of characters. In PHP, a character is the same as a byte, that 
> is, there are exactly 256 different characters possible. This also 
> implies that PHP has no native support of Unicode. See *utf8_encode()* 
> <http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php> and 
> *utf8_decode()* <http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php> 
> for some Unicode support.
> 
> There are utf-8 and unicode help functions, though, as listed above. 
> (http://php.net/utf8-encode; http://php.net/utf8-decode)
> 

despite that it actually all works fine. i've done lots of multilingual
stuff in PHP making use of unicode with no problems

Adam