Re: Encoding Japanese characters.

Thanks for the quick response.  I suppose that I did not make myself very
clear.  I realize that this page's solution is to convert to unicode
numerical values.  Since I want to do something very similar to this
particular page (ie; I happen to have the Japanese name of something that I
would like to display, but the rest of the page is entirely English), this
seems to be the best solution.

What I can't seem to figure out is how to get the unicode value for a
multibyte character.  I guess that I'm looking for the mb equivalent of
ord().  Any ideas?  Or is there a better/smarter way to accomplish what I'm
after?

"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:007b01c356ef$e8148fe0$0101a8c0@dan...
> 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:
>
> &#31185;&#23398;&#24525;&#32773;&#38538;&#12460;&#12483;&#12481;&#12515;
> &#12510;&#12531;
>
> 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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