Using Japanese Strings

Anon

Hi, might anyone know how I could use Japanese characters in a string?

If I try

echo 'some japanese string';

I don't get a Japanese output. Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Anon

This should be no problem with php4. Just make sure all is shift_JIS and you should be OK. Also you may want to specify this in the HTML header.

Anon

Actually, I have found out that you need to compile PHP with the jstring module. In addition, you must use EUC(in the source). If you use Shift-JIS, BAD things happen (the first byte of a SJIS character is interpreted as an escape character by PHP sometimes, and that breaks a lot of things). You can get the output of the script to be in Shift-JIS but it's a bit tricky...

Thanks for your reply though!

--Masashi Ito

Anon

Are you using php3 or php4? I've been using php4/mySQL and shift_JIS with no problem. Have a look at
http://www.j-cake.com
All the recipe section is php/mySQL driven in shift_JIS. EUC is inconvenient for me, because I design on a Mac...

Another question perhaps you can help with! The subject header of an email has to be converted to JIS - base64. Is there a way of doing this without extra installations on php4. Are there any php scripts that can take care of this? I've actually been thinking of just leaving the subject header is shift_JIS(base64) because I hear that most mailers can this cope anyway.

Anon

I've been using PHP4 for a while now. Hmm. Interesing. What platform is your server? I could NOT get SJIS strings working on my Linux server. The parser just barfed on me whenever it hit a character with a "\" in one of the bytes.

Yes, I hate EUC myself because I have to use a special editor in windoze to use it...

As for the header, I'm not sure. I haven't tried that before... In the case you do want to install jstring (if you're running PHP4 as a DSO module, installation is trivial), there are functions that convert encodings. If you're interested you can get the module at ftp://night.fminn.nagano.nagano.jp/php4/
Sorry I wasn't much help m( )m

macgruder

I think your problem here is not shift_JIS. Are you storing stuff in a database. Then you need to make sure you
addslashes($string) before you put it in the database, and then
stripslashes($string) after you take it out.
You don\'t need to do this for strings that you know don\'t need escaping, for example number fields in a form providing you have checked that the user has entered stuff correctly.
I\'m on a Unix system running Apache, so perhaps things are different.

Anon

I have used both Oracle and MySQL backends, but this is a more basic problem. I can assign the string inline manually, like

$foo = "SJIS_string";

and it will often fail. EUC is just something I have to live with, I guess

Anon

Hi,

I am using PHP3 version 3.0.18 but when I install on a PHP3 version 3.0.15-i18n my program and my shift-JIS change....

I have no idea how to retify the problem do suggest....

Anon

Do you have a code example of using Japanese? I need to be able to get Japanese input in a TEXTAREA, store it in MySQL and the print it back and potentially edit it.

-DOn