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innovis · 01-23-2006, 09:32 PM

I've got a MySQL DB with Japanese characters in it, stored as UTF-8. How can I make PHP print them out as Japanese characters?

Rawb · 01-24-2006, 06:37 PM

innovis · 01-24-2006, 07:54 PM

I got it to work... in Firefox.

In IE It displays them as ASCII characters. If I use VIEW SOURCE on the IE page, it shows them as Japanese characters....

www.tinkerslab.com/japanese.php

Rawb · 01-24-2006, 08:29 PM

Ahh. IE, the web developers nightmare.

Okay, try this instead, put it before you output ANY content.
header('Content-Type:','text/html; charset=UTF-8');

That should tell IE earlier on that you are going to feed it UTF-8, and that it should be expecting that.

innovis · 01-25-2006, 12:30 AM

Still a no go...

Put the header in the php

01-23-2006, 09:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
innovis Crazy	Japanese Characters with PHP I've got a MySQL DB with Japanese characters in it, stored as UTF-8. How can I make PHP print them out as Japanese characters?

01-24-2006, 06:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
Rawb Crazy Location: Salt Town, UT	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> In the <head> section of your HTML output should get you there. There are also a bunch of functions in PHP that will output the correct stuff for date and number formatting, the key is to putenv('LC='.$their_locale); Unfortunately, $their_locale is different on different OS's/distributions, so you'll have to figure it out on your own, but that should be a good start for you.

01-24-2006, 07:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
innovis Crazy	I got it to work... in Firefox. In IE It displays them as ASCII characters. If I use VIEW SOURCE on the IE page, it shows them as Japanese characters.... www.tinkerslab.com/japanese.php

01-24-2006, 08:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
Rawb Crazy Location: Salt Town, UT	Ahh. IE, the web developers nightmare. Okay, try this instead, put it before you output ANY content. header('Content-Type:','text/html; charset=UTF-8'); That should tell IE earlier on that you are going to feed it UTF-8, and that it should be expecting that.

01-25-2006, 12:30 AM	#5 (permalink)
innovis Crazy	Still a no go... Put the header in the php