After quite a bit of searching and testing, the simplest method I’ve found for a Unicode-compatible alternative to the PHP ord() function is this: I found this here. However, it has been mentioned that this method is rather slow. Does anyone know of a more efficient method which is nearly as simple? And…
Tag: utf-8
UTF 8 and Windows 1254 charset mismatch
I’m using Drupal 7. And i created a block and embed this code: My site charset: And external link charset is: So, when get some info on external link, i have character problem (don’t seen İ, ç, ş etc..) How can i solve this? Answer In your block, I would create these two lines: so this page’…
UTF-8 safe equivalent of ord or charCodeAt() in PHP
I need to be able to use ord() to get the same value as javascript’s charCodeAt() function. The problem is that ord() doesn’t support UTF8. How can I get Ą to translate to 260 in PHP? I’ve tried some uniord functions out there, but they all report 256 instead of 260. Thanks a lot for any hel…
Encoding SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS into UTF-8
I’m generating a XML file with PHP using DomDocument and I need to handle asian characters. I’m pulling data from the MSSQL2008 server using the pdo_mssql driver and I apply utf8_encode() on the XML …
glob() can’t find file names with multibyte characters on Windows?
I’m writing a file manager and need to scan directories and deal with renaming files that may have multibyte characters. I’m working on it locally on Windows/Apache PHP 5.3.8, with the following file names in a directory: filename.jpg имяфайла.jpg file件name.jpg פילענאַמע.jpg 文件名.jpg Testing on a l…
Convert latin1 characters on a UTF8 table into UTF8
Only today I realized that I was missing this in my PHP scripts: All my tables are InnoDB, collation “utf8_unicode_ci”, and all my VARCHAR columns are “utf8_unicode_ci” as well. I have mb_internal_encoding(‘UTF-8’); on my PHP scripts, and all my PHP files are encoded as UTF…
Problem with PHP and Mysql UTF-8 (Special Character)
I Have a form with one textbox called(ProductTitle) if I write as example “Étuit” in the textbox and click on Save, I post the data in a table called Product. The result int the database for …
How can I detect a malformed UTF-8 string in PHP?
The iconv function sometimes gives me an error: Is there a way to detect that there are illegal characters in a UTF-8 string before sending data to inconv()? Answer First, note that it is not possible to detect whether text belongs to a specific undesired encoding. You can only check whether a string is valid…
fwrite() and UTF8
I am creating a file using php fwrite() and I know all my data is in UTF8 ( I have done extensive testing on this – when saving data to db and outputting on normal webpage all work fine and report as utf8.), but I am being told the file I am outputting contains non utf8 data 🙁 Is there
How to set UTF-8 encoding for a PHP file
I have a PHP script called : http://cyber-flick.com/apiMorpho.php?method=getMorphoData&word=kot That displays some data in plain text: As you can see in place of proper chars there are so “bushes”. What i would like to do is display this in a way so that people see in browser proper UTF-8 char…