Multiple Languages

[ph3n0m]

Hi all

I know you dont really have to specify languages when you are inserting text into a database (or do you?)

anyway when displaying the text from a database, besides specificying the charsets, what else would you have to specify?

I ask because I am storing Hindi text in a mySQL database but when I output it, using charset utf-8 - it looks like pure crap?

anyone with ideas?

[goa103]

First Detect character encoding of the input using mb_detect_encoding, then use mb_convert_encoding to convert the text to an UTF-8 one. For example from ASCII to UTF-8. It works for me with Shift-JIS (Japanese) texts.