Re: multiple charsets status for PHP

>> could anyone point me in the direction of what the current status of >> support is within PHP (internally ie. engine, and externally ie. any >> extensions) for multiple charsets. PHP is internally mostly charset-invariant, though all language terms are based on iso-8859-1 (i.e., it'd be probably hard to have chineese variable names). However, you can store whatever text you like in variables. As for string function, most of them depend on underlying C library. Also, PHP has module for interfacing GNU recode, which allows you to convert characters between most known charsets (given that conversion exists, of course - you probably cannot convert russian to chineese). >> also, if anyone has had the chance to develop a site with support for more >> than one language using PHP, i'd really like to hear about your >> experiences. Well, I did, but I didn't have any issues with that - PHP basically took data from DB or user input, displayed it on screen, and that's it. Who cares what language or charset, if any, was it? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.106