Japanese and PHP

thelocust

Greetings.

I'm having a bit of difficulty getting Japanese character sets to display with PHP (w/ Apache on Linux).

I currently have HTML working fine, by adding this into my httpd.conf:

AddLanguage ja .ja
AddType "text/html; charset=SHIFT_JIS" .htm

Now, that might be the wrong way to add a language to Apache, but it will do for my cause.

Now, with PHP, you can't just add another .php type and specify the charset -- this much I know doesn't work.

How should I go about doing this? One of the applications I'm using is phpBB2.

thelocust

hmm... well...

I seemed to have fixed things by not specifying a default character set in Apache.

AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

becomes

#AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

Yeah.

The httpd.conf comments mentions that it's a good idea to specify this "and opens the door for future internationlization", and by "internationalization" I think they mean their method of using index.html.en index.html.ja, etc. All I wanted were pages with the Content Type charset of "SHIFT_JIS" to show up correctly, and this fixed it!