> encoding. But using PHP with other languages, is that possible? I > mean, does PHP support Unicode at present time?
Yes, PHP is an excellent choice for unicode work, both for websites and commandline utilities. > As I understand it, the following statement is true: "PHP supports > Unicode only as long as it is encoded as UTF-8" UTF-8 is usually what you want. Browser and tool and editor support is most widespread for UTF-8 (especially on linux). Even using a Microsoft SQL Server database, which I believe was using UCS-2LE internally, I give it the data in UTF-8, and the database connection handles the conversion behind the scenes for me. Be aware if you go down the UTF-16 route you have to start caring about LE vs. BE, and also need to understand the difference between UTF-16 and UCS-2. > Is that correct, or does PHP also support UTF-16? If using the mbstring extension then UTF-16 is supported (including for regexes apparently): http://jp.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.supported-encodings.php mbstring has been on all shared hosts I've used, so it is usually fine to rely on it. Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/gobet/ (Shodan Go Bet - who will win?) http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (Multilingual open source semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) -- PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
