file.php in UTF-8 encoding

chill

WOW!

I am glad (surprised) to see that PHP can process also files that are in UTF-8 format. I have ASP backgrond and asp only processed ANSI files.

It means I really can use PHP files for translations (multilingual).

At least it works on Windos XP + Apache. I hope it works the same way on Linux also?

But now... the translating itself - probably the array approach is the best one?

Thanks,

Any comments?

zyad

Have you been able to write in UTF-8 files using PHP ???
I've tried but it did not work.

What I was trying to do is to create a file using PHP (fwrite) in UTF-8 and then write to the file.

Canyou please tell me how you did this ??

Thanks

chill

I opened notepad (Windows XP)
Typed in the php below
Saved the file test.php (with UTF-8 encoding)

And it worked via Apache http server.

Anyway - I am still not sure if I should do the translation that way. I mean - basically the translator should not have ANY knowledge in PHP. I'd prefer using some sort of plain txt file or XML file for translations. But I have'nt found any good samples yet.

<?php

echo("a to Z<BR>\n");
echo("scandinavians -> äöõüå ÄÖÕÜÅ<BR>\n");
echo("russian -> &#1049;&#1071;&#1063;&#1060;&#1044;&#1068;&#1048;&#1099;&#1096;&#1097;&#1085;&#1103;<BR>\n");

?>

chill

Well... russian characters were messd up but - you get the point.

zyad

so a UTF-8 file cannot be created from PHP. It must first be created in the UTF-8 encoding, and then we can write to it.

Have you tried this with an HTML file ?

chill

I have not tried to create a UTF-8 file with PHP code (and I have not tried to update one also).

Anyway - I belive it can be done - but I am not sure. I dunno.

I will probaly need it too - when I write the admin module for my website. I will want to give the admin (or translator) the opportunity to change the multilingual variables via web interface (browser).

I'm afraid that it might end up on using the DB after all. (But I'd better not use the DB for translation - we'll see) I dunno.

I am going to deal with this queston soon (maybe next week). Right now I'm dealing with templates (phplib). seeya.