[RESOLVED] Storing & Accessing Unicode Characteres

wekkaw

Hi, I tried to store Unicode characters into an array and retrieve them, but all I'm getting is "?"s instead of the Unicode characters I put in the code.

I typed the Unicode characters in MS-Word and past the values into my PHP code as seen below:

$tempArray = array('?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?');

As you can see the array converts the Unicode chars to "?". What should I do to store the actual Unicode chars? Btw, the Unicode chars I'm trying to store into the array are between U+1200 to U+1370F.

I appreciate in advance for any help you can give me. 🙂

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bpat1434

What's the page encoding? If it's not UTF-8, they won't show up because the ISO charset doesn't support them. So... the charset of the page is?

wekkaw

Thanks for the quick response. 🙂

Yes I've set the charset to UTF-8 as shown below:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<?php

my php code goes here

?>

Thanks,

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bpat1434

PHP itself doesn't support UTF-8 characters, only single-byte characters.

One option is to store the HTML character codes in the array, and just use them instead...

wekkaw

So what would the HTML character would look like for example for a character U-1200.

Do you know of any function out there that converts between Unicode and HTML?

Thanks again.

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bpat1434

HTML entities....
Lookuptable

wekkaw

Thanks a lot, that did the trick.