displaying foreign languages in PHP

[davidklonski]

Hello

I am trying to display foreign languages in PHP.
The translations for all the words need to be stored in PHP files.

Can anyone tell me what sort of encoding I need to use?
Does PHP support unicode?
If not, how do I save the foreign languages in the files?

what sort of character set do I need to use in the generated HTML pages?

thanks in advance

[dalecosp]

Hmm, I dunno much about this. PHP can encode or decode UTF-8; I also remember a thread here regarding Japanese encoding; IIRC part of the solution was to adjust the default character set used by Apache to UTF-8.

Perhaps Google is your friend. The php functions I mentioned are [man]utf8_encode[/man] and [man]utf8_decode[/man] ... but as I said, I can barely speak English .... :rolleyes:

[pablodelapena]

As imple idea but what i use for my international pages:

the page which displays the foreign language could be written as such: Say you have a form for submitting some text...

preset variables:

<?php
$languages['field1_value'] = "Enter a message";
$languages['submit_value'] = "Click to send!";
?>

form:

<?php
//language file (contains variables)
require_once('dir/to/file/english.php');

echo "<form action=file.php method=post>";

echo "<input type=text name=field1 value=\"".$language['field1_value']."\">";
echo "<input type=submit value=\"".$language['submit_value']."\">";

echo "</form>";
?>

This uses a bunch of preset variables (written in the foreign languag, in this case english). It then takes the variables and uses them instead?

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick as usual?