charactor conversion help needed!

**afridy** · Aug 5, 2012 04:14

Hai folks,

i am in need of converting "John" to Unicode UCS-2 (also know as UTF16 i think) Encording.

i tried this function.

Code:

<?php
function Str2Utf16($string) {
  $string = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-16", $string);
  return $string;
}
?>

output : þÿJohn
expecting : 004a006f0068006e (obtained from an online converter)

Please help!!

**afridy** · Aug 5, 2012 10:21

Hi folks

i found the code page for UCS-2, Now my plan is to create a function to manually convert each alpha numeric charactors individullay

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ucs2.html

**pavels** · Aug 6, 2012 11:16

You can also mb_convert_encoding() http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...t-encoding.php

**afridy** · Aug 8, 2012 00:59

Originally Posted by pavels

You can also mb_convert_encoding() http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...t-encoding.php

WOW, Glad to know about this function pavels,
as per the php documentation, this functions supports UCS-2, this would be a great thing. let me try out and come back to you!!!

**afridy** · Aug 8, 2012 02:48

Code:

function convert($str){
	$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UCS-2","auto");
	return $str;
}

Code:

	   $empno_ucs2=convert($empno); // $empno = 7302
           echo $empno_ucs2; // out put 7302 (showing no changes).
	   $empno_ucs2=implode(unpack('C*',$empno_ucs2)); 
	   echo $empno_ucs2; //055051048050

Problem : when you convert 7302 using an online UCS-2 Converter, the above out put 055051048050 is wrong.
it must be 0037003300300032

Any idea

**afridy** · Aug 8, 2012 03:44

Hai folks,

This worked!

Code:

<?php
$strTerm = '7302';
echo mb_convert_encoding(bin2hex(mb_convert_encoding($strTerm, 'UCS-2', 'auto')), 'UCS-2', 'auto');
?>

output : 0037003300300032

Thank you.

**Cups** · Aug 8, 2012 04:18

Hi, @afridy ;, despite your conducting a conversation largely with yourself on this issue, perhaps you can explain to me (us) why it is important for you to encode data as UCS-2. I would like to understand as it not something I have come across before.

Thanks

**afridy** · Aug 8, 2012 04:22

Originally Posted by Cups

Hi, @afridy ;, despite your conducting a conversation largely with yourself on this issue, perhaps you can explain to me (us) why it is important for you to encode data as UCS-2. I would like to understand as it not something I have come across before.

Thanks

Hai buddy,
we are using clickatell.com sms gateway. so all unicode messages (multi lang) should encoded to the UCS-2 Standed as per thiere documentation http://www.clickatell.com/downloads/...atell_HTTP.pdf

* load that pdf and search for the text UCS