Re: Where to Begin?

Jamie wrote:

> Hi, i've been doing a little php programming for a while now, as well
> as interacting with japanese data and mysql.
> 
> But now i need to rewrite my site to account for the possibility of
> mutliple languages being used on the one page.
> 
> What i had intended to do was to store everything in the database as
> UTF-8, and to output the html pages as UTF-8.
> 
> I've read about the slashes issues and the internal encoding issues
> and i think i understand.
> 
> But, if i have a page that requires input in Japanese and Hangul, what
> should i set  the internal encoding as:
> mbstring.internal_encoding    = UTF-8 
> 
> What i'm not too sure about is, if the user uses an IME with SJIS to
> input japanese, and then another IME to inpout the Korean, does PHP
> convert this to UTF-8? And if i need to fill the form back in
> (mistakes or omissions) do i need to convert the text back to some
> other format?

No. The browser converts all of them to UTF-8 instead. If browser fails 
to do it (esp Opera), then change your browser.
So, you can forget this issue in PHP.
> 
> If i pull UTF-8 text from a DB,how or do i need to convert it (to SJIS
> for example) to fill i a form?

Again... forget it. Simply send the form in UTF-8 and people will answer 
in UTF-8
> 
> Lastly, would it be advisable to give users the ability to output a
> HTML page in another character set (UTF default -> User wants SJIS) as
> long as their are only japanese charaters to display?

No. Popular browsers (IE and Mozilla) have absolutely no difficulties 
using UTF-8. In the other way, having encoding conversions adds 
complexity to your program (it is also easy to do it wrong!).

Today I was reading a web diary that the writer submitted a essay in 
SJIS when it should be BIG5. Nightmare...
> 
> Sorry if i don't exactly make much sense, i'm still trying to come to
> terms with dealing with multiple character sets and IME's.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Jamie

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