Mix and match locales: That's how my script rolls...

schwim

Hi there guys,

I posted earlier about this problem, but as I refine it, I thought it best I start a new thread with all of the details:

I have a user of the script that is using it in a Korean language environment. I created the script to set the html headers via the lang file, to allow the user to be able to se the charset for their language and I set the collation of the MySQL db to UTF-8.

My page header:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>

Of course, in his language, the charset is different, set to his language, but since I can't view his lang file without corrupting it, I can't see it. I can however link you to the lang file, whose first definition is the charset:

KR lang file

Ok, now here's where it gets odd.

He states that he has to have the headers set to UTF 8 in the browser to see the script language data correctly, but you has to have the browser set to western mode if he wants the submitted data to show up correctly. In short, he has to choose which will be corrupted, either the language file data, or what gets submitted into the database.

He even provided a graphical representation of his problem.

I've run out of ideas! What can I do to get this to work correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks,
json

jkurrle

Well, the form is in UTF-8, but what about the processing script?

You have two different pages here. Can you specify the data type in your processing script as well, before you retrieve data and process it? If so, does it make any difference?

schwim

hi there,

Do you mean that the submission page needs to have http headers set, although html isn't getting written until after the submission?

I'm not sure I understand. Is there another way to set the charset of that page that I don't know about?

thanks,
json

jkurrle

As an experiment, I'd set the http header first, then retrieve the data to see if it retrieves under how you set the charset.

There may be a way to set the charset other than through the header, but I'm not sure how to do it. I'm still too new to this.

schwim

Hi there jkurrle and thanks very much for the reply,

I appreciate the links you provided, but must say that they are completely confusing the the layman in regards to actual application. I understand less now reading about it than I did previously.

Should I simply try:

$value=UTF8_encode($_POST['value']);

or is that function intended for a different use?

thanks,
json