ID: 22108
Comment by: kamor at worldonline dot fr
Reported By: bugzilla at jellycan dot com
Status: Assigned
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: Any
PHP Version: All (as of the current implementation)
Assigned To: moriyoshi
New Comment:
New and better solution in order to include some UTF-8 files without
including BOM chars. In fact previous solution works well with IE and
Mozilla but XHTML validation fails.
Well, the following solution is not the best but with some restrictions
in the code organisation gives good results:
<b>Solution:</b>
Insert 'ob_start()' before include() commands and 'ob_end_clean()'
after. This will clear all direct outputs produced by inclusions.
example:
<?php
ob_start();
include('mylib1.php');
include('mylib2.php');
// ... other includes
ob_end_clean(); // clean all outputs from ob_start();
// my code using classes from my included libraries
?>
This works well for pure function/class libraries.
Other solutions may be explored with other output buffer functions
(ob_*).
Previous Comments:
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[2003-10-25 09:28:22] kamor at worldonline dot fr
Lazy solution for doctype detection under IE:
put the doctype declaration on the first line of the main script
(before all include() )
And let's hope that the following buggy chars will not interfer with my
beautiful pages ;)
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[2003-07-29 01:15:23] yyasarr at hotmail dot com
php really doesn't ignore the utf-8 BOM
This is A BUG !
but can be solved easily
SOLVE METHOD:
1. Open any simple text editor. Such as NC (Norton Commander).
2. F4 for editing.
3. Delete first 3 (three) or 2 (two) bytes, characters [depends on file
type ]
file types:
-----------
UTF-8: EF BB BF // 3(three) bytes
Unicode big endian : FE FF // 2 (two) bytes
Unicode: FF FE // 2 (two) bytes
4. Check the result.
i am using this method. if u know better one, write it.
__________________
Yashar Alekberzade
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[2003-07-19 09:01:50] ipa at assis dot lt
Simple Example:
I have multilanguage system where my text strings ar written as huge
array in one file. It has been saved in UTF-8 with simple Notepad,
which allows to save this format.
when i include() this file to access text strings, it outputs that
three bytes, so IE have displayed visible breakline with that HTML.
Result: cannot write multilanguage PHP scripts even with notepad. Have
to use iconv() what i dificult, because not every hoster have compiled
PHP with it.
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[2003-07-03 15:05:35] jaanus at heeringson dot com
One thing i forgot to mention in my previous post is that multiple
BOM's also inhibit Internet Explorer 6 from rendering pages in
standards-compliance mode, which is a big issue when developing by w3c
standards.
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[2003-07-03 14:59:44] jaanus at heeringson dot com
There are some consequenses that are not mentioned in the above
comments. More than one BOM renders a perfectly valid XHTM file
non-valid. Apparently the XHTML specification allows BOM characters,
but only ONE, not multiple which is what you get if you include other
utf-8 files (include, require). This in turn results in the possibility
that the xml declaration in not read since it is not found. This is the
case with the w3c validator.
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