Hi Gutavo, Now I see what is going on. I thought string is treated as just a bunch of data once is was compiled and passed through.
$ ./sapi/cli/php -d zend.multibyte=1 -d zend.script_encoding=SJIS -d mbstring.internal_encoding=utf-8 sjis.php 表 Thanks for your time. May be I should document this, since there may be a confusion. -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Gustavo Lopes <glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote: > Em Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:38:11 -0000, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> > escreveu: > >> Oops, I thought "?" was due to terminal encoding, but I double checked >> with >> redirecting to a file. >> >> $ ./sapi/cli/php -d zend.multibyte=1 -d zend.script_encoding=SJIS sjis.php >> > tt >> >> It became "?" instead of "表".. >> It seems something wrong. >> >> Thanks for you time. > > You also have to say what it's converted *to* (I think, but I'm not sure, > the default is ISO-8859-1). This works: > > $echo 表 | uconv -f utf-8 -t sjis > sjis.php > $./php -d zend.multibyte=1 -d zend.script_encoding=SJIS -d > mbstring.internal_encoding=utf-8 sjis.php > 表 > > -- > Gustavo Lopes > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php