Well, I feel foolish for having the result being something that I should have noticed, but extremely happy that you pointed it out. Works great, thank you!
On Aug 14, 8:17 pm, "Jeff S (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think the issue may be that the Japanese characters need to URL encoded > when you are setting the $url. I'm not a PHP expert by any means, but a bit > of searching turned up the following website which seems like it might have > some helpful suggestions > > http://us2.php.net/urlencode > > Happy coding, > > Jeff > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:34 PM, molesquirrel <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > I'm using the simple php example in the docs for the API and I'd like > > to use a term that is in either utf8 or shift_jis (Japanese charset). > > I'm a tad lost on what needs to be added to tell the API to see it as > > utf-8 - right now, it appears to be translated into gibberish with 0 > > results in the returned json. The php file it's loading from is > > already saved with the right character-set, so that's not the > > problem. > > > Please let me know if any other information is required, and I > > appreciate the help! > > > <?php > > > $term = '日本'; //not sure if you can see this, but it's two japanese > > characters > > > $url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q= > > $term"; > > > // sendRequest > > // note how referer is set manually > > $ch = curl_init(); > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://mysitehere.com/index.html";); > > $body = curl_exec($ch); > > curl_close($ch); > > > // now, process the JSON string > > $json = json_decode($body); > > echo "<pre>"; > > print_r($json); > > > ?> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
