Re: Encoding Japanese characters.

Inwards wrote:
>
> - I have a string containing a Japanese phrase.  mb_detect_encoding()
> reports it as SJIS.
> - I want to display this string in HTML without changing the encoding
> type (ISO-8859-1).

You can't. If you want to support Japanese in a web page, you have to
use an encoding that supports Japanese - UTF-8, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, for
example.

> - In order to accomplish this, I would like to encode the text as
> Unicode values.  I have seen a nice example of this in action here:
> http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4 so I know
> that it is possible.

That page doesn't use Japanese, but HTML numeric entities:

科学忍者隊ガッチャ
マン

You need to find a method of converting Japanese to numeric entities if
that's the route you want to take. I have had it happen to me by
accident, but for anyone who can read Japanese, it's a complete
nightmare to work with, so it's unlikely to be a function in great
demand.

David Powers
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