Hello,
Redirecting to php-i18n list, which is the most suitable place for this kind of matter.
On 2004/12/05, at 5:01, Al Baker wrote:
I've noticed some different behavior between mbstring versions 4.2.2 and
4.3.9 -- both on RedHat 8 -- in terms of how internal encoding affects
the script.
In 4.2.2, the encoding translation appeared to work okay and would
convert Shift_JIS into UTF-8 on incoming requests. We didn't try any
other encodings since this was our primary concern and worked well. The
internal_encoding setting in the php.ini file was set to UTF-8. Our
language file (very simple PHP array with values being the translated
text) was in Shift_JIS, and this was no problem to just send this to the
browser. We display send the Shift_JIS language file entries to the
browser [via Smarty] as well as some other text that is stored in UTF-8
and run through mb_convert_encoding to convert it to Shift_JIS as well.
All in all, this works as expected.
So you set the internal encoding to UTF-8 while having translated message catalog as Shift_JIS. Then which encoding are you using primarily in your script? And is there any reason not to use UTF-8 everywhere applicable?
Now, we're trying to upgrade to php4.3.9 and I can find no easy way to
get the Shift_JIS to work.... in the existing setup, it would just
return UTF-8 or garbled characters. In other words, mb_convert_encoding
was not doing it's job, and it wouldn't even display the Shift_JIS
language file entries. Manually converting the language file from
Shift_JIS characters to UTF-8 and then running all the elements through
mb_convert_encoding apparently did nothing as well -- unless I first
called mb_internal_encoding() and set that to Shift_JIS (likewise,
setting this in the php.ini file worked as well). Then, the characters
would be displayed correctly in Shift_JIS. I'm not sure if this is the
correct behavior though... it seems to me that the internal encoding
should almost always be UTF-8 and mb_convert_encoding should work
regardless of the internal encoding.
What settings did you put in your php.ini about mbstring?
Does it contain any part like "mbstring.language" comes after "mbstring.internal_encoding"?
- http_input was set to UTF-8, SJIS, as was the detect_order.
Which encoding is used for the input data?
Regards, Moriyoshi
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