Comments on: PHP UTF-8 0.1 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:17:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: dannolinux http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-63013 dannolinux Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:25:48 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-63013 Hi Harry, I was using str_replace to replace some parts of a utf-8 string with an ascii string, and I was getting some ? (question mark characters) So i tried your utf8_str_replace, but I am still getting the same characters. Do I have to use the UTF-8 to Code Point Array Converter? The utf-8 string I am trying to replace is in a PHP variable. I don't have mbstring extension installed and I was hoping to be abel to replace strings with your utf8.php functions. Thanks Hi Harry,

I was using str_replace to replace some parts of a utf-8 string with an ascii string, and I was getting some ? (question mark characters) So i tried your utf8_str_replace, but I am still getting the same characters.
Do I have to use the UTF-8 to Code Point Array Converter?

The utf-8 string I am trying to replace is in a PHP variable.

I don’t have mbstring extension installed and I was hoping to be abel to replace strings with your utf8.php functions.

Thanks

]]> By: SitePoint Blogs » AJAX Gotchas http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-22435 SitePoint Blogs » AJAX Gotchas Wed, 10 May 2006 02:08:59 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-22435 [...] For PHP developers especially, where limited out-of-the-box support for UTF-8 keeps many sites on single-byte character encodings, this issue could cause nasty surprises indeed. For example, if you want to add the ability to submit a form via AJAX and keep the standard submission method as a fallback, you could potentially end up having to support two different encodings for that submitted data! Tags: JavaScript, AJAX, PHP [...] […] For PHP developers especially, where limited out-of-the-box support for UTF-8 keeps many sites on single-byte character encodings, this issue could cause nasty surprises indeed. For example, if you want to add the ability to submit a form via AJAX and keep the standard submission method as a fallback, you could potentially end up having to support two different encodings for that submitted data! Tags: JavaScript, AJAX, PHP […]

]]> By: SitePoint Blogs » Do you know your character encodings? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-15706 SitePoint Blogs » Do you know your character encodings? Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:08:04 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-15706 [...] That is, unless you’re using PHP. One of the biggest weaknesses of PHP (up to and including PHP 5.1) is that its built-in string functions handle multi-byte character encodings like UTF-8 and UTF-16 incorrectly. PHP was written with the assumption that one byte equals one character, which simply isn’t the case in such encodings. An optional module or library can be used to provide alternative string functions that do support multi-byte characters, but many of the PHP scripts in circulation use the built-in functions, and simply can’t handle Unicode characters as a result. [...] […] That is, unless you’re using PHP. One of the biggest weaknesses of PHP (up to and including PHP 5.1) is that its built-in string functions handle multi-byte character encodings like UTF-8 and UTF-16 incorrectly. PHP was written with the assumption that one byte equals one character, which simply isn’t the case in such encodings. An optional module or library can be used to provide alternative string functions that do support multi-byte characters, but many of the PHP scripts in circulation use the built-in functions, and simply can’t handle Unicode characters as a result. […]

]]> By: SitePoint Blogs » US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-15015 SitePoint Blogs » US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:04:43 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-15015 [...] Following on from this release, the this turned out to be easier than I thought—ported Text::Unidecode to PHP—code available here or track down the utf8_to_ascii package from the main page—released it seperately to keep with the original (Perl artistic) license while the rest of the stuff is under LGPL. [...] […] Following on from this release, the this turned out to be easier than I thought—ported Text::Unidecode to PHP—code available here or track down the utf8_to_ascii package from the main page—released it seperately to keep with the original (Perl artistic) license while the rest of the stuff is under LGPL. […]

]]> By: davidgal http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-14731 davidgal Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:08:32 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-14731 It is an amazing library. Thanks for the wonderful job Harry :) Joomla development team has selected this library to provide utf-8 capabilities to Joomla 1.1 CMS. The PHP-UTF library has been integrated into the core framework of Joomla. A wrapper class provides a standard Joomla API for both core and 3PD extensions. The result is that any PHP developer extending the Joomla framework gets utf-8 included thanks to PHP UTF8. Even with PHP 6 on the horizon it is great to be able to provide true utf-8 capabilities with backward compatibility to PHP 4.1 and without having to force loading of mbstring on all those shared hosts. It is an amazing library. Thanks for the wonderful job Harry :)

Joomla development team has selected this library to provide utf-8 capabilities to Joomla 1.1 CMS. The PHP-UTF library has been integrated into the core framework of Joomla. A wrapper class provides a standard Joomla API for both core and 3PD extensions.

The result is that any PHP developer extending the Joomla framework gets utf-8 included thanks to PHP UTF8.

Even with PHP 6 on the horizon it is great to be able to provide true utf-8 capabilities with backward compatibility to PHP 4.1 and without having to force loading of mbstring on all those shared hosts.

]]> By: HarryF http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-14626 HarryF Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:25:16 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-14626 <blockquote> I recently added simple romanization support for a bunch of non-latin languages to the UTF-8 lib in DokuWiki. </blockquote> Will definately be swiping that (assuming it's OK). Might also take a shot at porting <a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Text-Unidecode" rel="nofollow">Text::Unidecode</a> from CPAN.

I recently added simple romanization support for a bunch of non-latin languages to the UTF-8 lib in DokuWiki.

Will definately be swiping that (assuming it’s OK). Might also take a shot at porting Text::Unidecode from CPAN.

]]> By: Andi http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-14623 Andi Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:39:40 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-14623 Nice! BTW. I recently added simple romanization support for a bunch of non-latin languages to the UTF-8 lib in DokuWiki. Nice! BTW. I recently added simple romanization support for a bunch of non-latin languages to the UTF-8 lib in DokuWiki.

]]> By: HarryF http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-14582 HarryF Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:28:55 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-14582 Many thanks although let's wait and see for the bug reports... I�t�rn�ti�n�liz�ti�n Many thanks although let’s wait and see for the bug reports… I�t�rn�ti�n�liz�ti�n

]]> By: ajking http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/26/php-utf-8-01/#comment-14578 ajking Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:43:41 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1440#comment-14578 Looks like I get to be the first to say: congratulations, Harry, outstanding work (as usual). Looks like I get to be the first to say: congratulations, Harry, outstanding work (as usual).

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