ID: 22108
Comment by: tronxoe at hotpop dot com
Reported By: bugzilla at jellycan dot com
Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: Any
PHP Version: All (as of the current implementation)
Assigned To: moriyoshi
New Comment:
The BOM is still fine when the php file does not include another
Unicode file (by using @include()).
Another problem: If a php file is saved in unicode, session and
cookies can not be used because "headers already sent ...". I think the
first 3 bytes has been sent in this case
Previous Comments:
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[2003-02-08 10:57:30] moriyoshi@php.net
reassigning
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[2003-02-08 06:10:51] helly@php.net
Ok, the UTF-8 BOM was new to me.
If i find the time i'll have a look at it over the weekend.
I think the solution would be somewhere in zend's multibyte support
since i fear adding that bom to mbstring
alone does not do the trick.
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[2003-02-08 05:43:14] bugzilla at jellycan dot com
derick, assuming that you wanted to create a version of the the example
at http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php#intro-whatis
which
displayed the text "Hi, I'm a PHP script" in multiple languages, how
would you propose doing it?
The only way is to use a form of unicode encoding. The least intrusive
of these ways is utf-8 because it encodes the text in such a way that
ascii characters (7 bit characters) are still plain ascii characters,
and all encoded characters are always >128 and will never be mistaken
for ascii.
I haven't seen any documentation which states that php can only handle
ascii text, please direct me to it if it exists. If there is some
known problem with PHP parsing UTF-8 scripts, I haven't found it yet in
a multitude of different files with different languages which PHP is
parsing happily.
The only problem that I have had is that any files which have an UTF-8
BOM, PHP is mistakenly outputting the BOM as input. This is a bug of
PHP. The solution is easy, on loading a file, strip the BOM if it
exists. Make it optional processing via a php.ini config argument if
necessary.
Don't be US-centric in your thinking, there is far more world existing
outside those borders.
Regards,
Brodie.
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[2003-02-08 04:24:12] derick@php.net
PHP doesn't want UNICODE scripts, but just ASCII ones. Not a bug ->
bogus.
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[2003-02-08 02:01:11] moriyoshi@php.net
And assigning this task to me.
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