Are you sure you will be using UTF8? The native charset everyone uses in Japan is EUC-JP and in Korea it is EUC-KR. This of course doesn't mean that UTF8 won't work, but you may want to doublecheck on that.
As far as PHP is concerned you can work in almost any character set you want, including UTF8, in your PHP script itself. User input can come in from the browser in even more character sets and the output can be any of a long list as well. For more info I suggest reading through http://php.net/mbstring -Rasmus On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Ligaya Turmelle wrote: > Hi I am just starting a project that will have to handle English, Japanese > and Korean characters. I have never programmed for an international group > before and am unsure how to begin. I will be using a HTML(UTF8)/PHP front > end with a MySQL DB in the back. I have read over the information about > multi-byte string functions for PHP on PHP.net and still am very confused > about what I have to do to start using these functions. Also I am confused > about what (if anything) I have to do with the MySQL DB. This seems to be > the only place to go to ask questions. I'm sorry if I ask silly or stupid > questions in the future and ask for your patience. > > Can anyone tell me where to go to get information, possibly view code > snippets, or a forum I could join. Where is a good place to start? > > -- > PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
