>No, I don't. It just appeared from the documentation and what I saw >online that the internal_encoding should be set to EUC. However, I went >and changed the internal_encoding to Shift_JIS and it seems to work. >Any idea if this is a good or bad idea?
There are known mojibake problems with Shift_JIS. See the archives for more. As David mentioned, EUC-JP would be the better choice, especially when you're using Japanese in databases with PHP, at least till UTF-8 becomes more widely supported. Lew -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php