Hiya,
I'm new to this internaiton thing and working on my first international
website.
I don't actually use gettext, because my server dosent have it
installed, but I use my own which basically reads the page text from an
Unicode XML file. I initially wrote the file in a non Unicode text editor so
it ended up not working. So you need to have a unicode text editor (I use
Yudit, just search for it, there is a Unix and Windows versions). Make sure
you set Yudit to use Unicode. To populate this file, I write the tags in
English, and the other languages I copy using text from freetranslation.com,
that site is not in Unicode but it seems to work, copying must do some
conversion.
My header includes <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;
charset=utf-8'>. And includes lines such as this <meta
http-equiv='Content-Language' content='en-uk'>, for each language (not sure
if needed though.
And it works great!
Iv'e not tried MySQL yet with Unicode, I think you need the latest
version, but if your database is not in Unicode it may need altering.
Love,
Steve
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> In the process of designing a web-based publishing system that is
> internationalized using gettext() calls, I've run into some odd
> problems with the display and proper charset when there are multiple
> languages on a page. Here's the background:
>
> My default charset (declared in content-type meta tag) is iso-8859-1.
> On the page, there is a language popup that allows users to change to
> any number of languages, including Greek (iso-8859-7) and Turkish
> (iso-8859-9). Switching to a different language changes PHP's locale
> settings, and also changes the META tag charset. You're welcome to poke
> and prod it at http://dev.dadaimc.org/.
>
> Users input text into a form for publication. The form declares
> "accept-charset=" and defaults to iso-8859-1, windows-1252, utf-8, and
> then whatever charsets are used by available languages (e.g. iso-8859-7
> and -9). The text is stored in a MySQL database (default charset
> iso-8859-1).
>
> I can successfully input English, Turkish, and Greek text. And when a
> viewer selects "Turkish" from the language menu, the Turkish text
> displays fine (because META tag is set to "iso-8859-9"). The same
> applies to English and Greek. However, on a page which displays all
> three texts -- one in each language -- only one of the three will
> display properly (whichever one corresponds to the currently selected
> language). Obviously inconvenient.
>
> I visited another site -- http://www.indymedia.org/ which also displays
> multiple languages on the same page. It uses "utf-8" in the META tag
> (which makes sense, since it encompasses all the necessary characters).
> The publishing form it uses declares no accept-charset parameter. But
> it works!
>
> When I tried using "charset=utf-8" in my META tag, the text displays
> worse than before -- lots of unprintable characters.
>
> So I'm wondering if anyone knows the magic incantation that brings this
> all together -- how do I get my 3 texts in English, Greek, and Turkish
> to ALL display properly on the page at the same time?
>
> It can't be a simple META tag set to utf-8...that didn't work.
> Is the problem in the input method? The database storage method? The
> display method?
> Do I need to accept-charset=utf-8 ONLY on my input form?
> Does the page charset on the page containing the input form need to be
> utf-8?
> Does the database need to default to using utf-8 for storage? (It
> doesn't seem to be supported).
>
> Please help!
>
> Cheers,
> spud.
>
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