Re: [PHP] Problem when encoding non-english into UTF-8

2005-08-16 Thread John Nichel

Wong HoWang wrote:

Dear all,

When I try to encode non-english char. such as big5 to UTF-8 with 
utf8_encode(), it always generate a wrong result, which is not readable. 
What can I do?


Please help! 



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[PHP] Problem when encoding non-english into UTF-8

2005-08-15 Thread Wong HoWang
Dear all,

When I try to encode non-english char. such as big5 to UTF-8 with 
utf8_encode(), it always generate a wrong result, which is not readable. 
What can I do?

Please help! 

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Re: [PHP] Problem when encoding non-english into UTF-8

2005-08-15 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene

Wong HoWang wrote:

Dear all,

When I try to encode non-english char. such as big5 to UTF-8 with 
utf8_encode(), it always generate a wrong result, which is not readable. 
What can I do?


From the manual [1]:

utf8_encode -- Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8

You're using the wrong tool for the job. Take a look at the iconv 
extension[2].


Jasper

[1] http://www.php.net/utf8_encode
[2] http://www.php.net/iconv

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