I get text as user input and somewhere in the text there are no standard characters, like this. The text is stored to a database. Everything is in UTF-8 and it works well, only it displays strange signs for the non standard characters. How can I filter these characters in PHP? Edit: I discovered that the text with the wrong charact...
Do I really need to switch from VARCHAR to VARBINARY and TEXT to BLOB for UTF-8 in Mysql & PHP? Or can I stick with CHAR/TEXT fields in MySQL? ...
I am looking for a code snippet in plain old C that detects that the given string is in UTF-8 encoding. I know the solution with regex, but for various reasons it would be better to avoid using anything but plain C in this particular case. Solution with regex looks like this (warning: various checks omitted): #define UTF8_DETECT_REGEXP...
require_once 'Zend/Pdf.php'; $pdf = new Zend_Pdf(); $page = $pdf->newPage(Zend_Pdf_Page::SIZE_A4); $pdf->pages[] = $page; $page->setFont(Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName(Zend_Pdf_Font::FONT_HELVETICA), 10); $page->drawText("Bogus Russian: это фигня", 100, 400, "UTF-8"); $pdfData = $pdf->render(); header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=...
How to convert a string that is in UCS2 (2 bytes per character) into a UTF8 string in ruby? ...
I have the following XML code. <firstname> <default length="6">Örwin</default> <short>Örwin</short> <shorter>Örwin</shorter> <shortest>�.</shortest> </firstname> Why does the content of the "shortest" node break? It should be a simple "Ö" instead of the tedious �. XML is UTF-8 encoded and the function which processes the output of...
I have a PHP script that reads in data from an XML file, returns it via AJAX to a page which then places the data in to the relevant text area. The Content-Type of the page is as follows: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> The XML heading looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!D...
Are these obsolete? They seem like the worst idea ever -- embed something in the contents of your file that no one can see, but impacts the file's functionality. I don't understand why I would want one. ...
How wide-spread is the use of UTF-8 for non-English text, on the WWW or otherwise? I'm interested both in statistical data and the situation in specific countries. I know that ISO-8859-1 (or 15) is firmly entrenched in Germany - but what about languages where you have to use multibyte encodings anyway, like Japan or China? I know that a...
I am trying to output a sigma character () in a label in a FusionChart graph. How can I specify that character in a PHP string? I have tried the htmlentity σ, but it is not interpreted correctly by the graph. Is there any way to specify the character in PHP using some sort of character code? ...
I have Flex application with UT8-encoding. It is sending back to the Server (PHP), and the data gets written in to Mysql (UT8 charset, utf8_general_ci). I have no problems at all writing/reading Umlaute from/to the database. I only realized, by looking at the data with PHPmyadmin that the Umlaute get somehow converted to: ö => ö ü => ...
Hi all, I've enabled directory listing of a folder under public_html, by adding: Options +Indexes in the .htaccess file. However, some files are not listed correctly by default, as some filenames are in Chinese (UTF-8 encoded). I can see the filenames if the change the browser's charset encoding to UTF-8. How can I let the browser ...
I want to standardise on UTF8 on our web browser. All our databases and internet stufff is in UTF8. All our web servers SAre sending the charset=utf-8 HTTP header. However I've discovered that my changing the encoding on my Firefox (View -> Character Encoding) to something else I can enter Latin-9 character into a form and PHP just treat...
Hi %, in order to 'feed' a .NET web service from java I do pass xml strings via a direct socket connection over to the server. Everything works wunderbar as long as I don't include any 'wierd' characters in my xml strings. Ä or ß for examples sake. I scripted around and figured that in php5 the problem is solved by utf8_encode(myXmlS...
So I want to use SetThreadLocale to set a threads codepage to UTF8. Up to now, I've been using the second parameter of atl string conversion macros like "CT2A(szBUF, CP_UTF8)" to do this. But I want to be able to set the thread codepage once in the beginning with SetThreadLocale() and never have to use the second parameter of the conver...
I'm working on a project in VS2008 that I'm compiling in MBCS but I need to work with some UTF-8 strings to interact with some web services. I wrote a function that works perfectly with Unicode but not MBCS. Is there any way I can convert a MBCS string to UTF-8 or to Unicode? Thanks! ...
I need to encode a message from request and write it into a file. Currently I am using the URLEncoder.encode() method for encoding. But it is not giving the expected result for special characters in French and Dutch. I have tried using URLEncoder.encode("msg", "UTF-8") also. Example: Original message: Pour gérer votre GSM After encod...
Hi there fellow programmers.. i am using Web Browser control in VB.net 2005, the application i wrote shows a webpage on my computer which has 2 text areas, one for input, and the other for output. my problem is, i need the charset of the whole program to be unicode, coz the charset of the webpage is utf8. and right now, when i process ...
I'm using Apache Commons e-mail validator and it refuses to accept email address like: ąźóęł@email.com so I would like to ask if it's right to not allow them or I should change validator? ...
Hi guys, I've been having a lot of trouble with character sets/encoding while writing a multi-lingual web app in PHP in different places such as the shell, inside PHP itself, and in the database. I want the whole application to be UTF-8 throughout, so that I won't have to worry about converting anything back and forth anymore. Does any...