Thanks for the quick response. I suppose that I did not make myself very clear. I realize that this page's solution is to convert to unicode numerical values. Since I want to do something very similar to this particular page (ie; I happen to have the Japanese name of something that I would like to display, but the rest of the page is entirely English), this seems to be the best solution.
What I can't seem to figure out is how to get the unicode value for a multibyte character. I guess that I'm looking for the mb equivalent of ord(). Any ideas? Or is there a better/smarter way to accomplish what I'm after? "David Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inwards wrote: > > > > - I have a string containing a Japanese phrase. mb_detect_encoding() > > reports it as SJIS. > > - I want to display this string in HTML without changing the encoding > > type (ISO-8859-1). > > You can't. If you want to support Japanese in a web page, you have to > use an encoding that supports Japanese - UTF-8, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, for > example. > > > - In order to accomplish this, I would like to encode the text as > > Unicode values. I have seen a nice example of this in action here: > > http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4 so I know > > that it is possible. > > That page doesn't use Japanese, but HTML numeric entities: > > 科学忍者隊ガッチャ > マン > > You need to find a method of converting Japanese to numeric entities if > that's the route you want to take. I have had it happen to me by > accident, but for anyone who can read Japanese, it's a complete > nightmare to work with, so it's unlikely to be a function in great > demand. > > David Powers > ******************************************* > No-nonsense reviews of computer books > http://japan-interface.co.uk/webdesign/books.html > Save 10% on TopStyle CSS Editor > ******************************************* > > > -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
