Re: PHP, MySQL, and Japanese text

Hello, "Step Schwarz" <step@closethipster.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was hoping to find some code examples or tutorials on using PHP/MySQL with > Japanese text. The site I've built is very close, but apparently a very I'm not sure about tutorials in English but if you know Japanese, I'm sure you can just google for them. :) > small subset of the characters become garbage when pulled from the database > into a form to be modified and resubmit to the database. Text in <textarea> > tags seems immune -- it's only the text pulled into <input> tags. I'm not really sure if I understand what you meant here--perhaps you can post some sample codes? > I've tried to follow the PHP documentation on handling multibyte characters > but without practical examples it really just doesn't make a lot of sense to > me. > > I'm not currently using encoding or output buffering at all -- I've just set > the language to be "shift_jis" in a meta tag. You mean in your html pages? That wouldn't really work unless you've configured php to handle multi-byte characters. (Maybe not necessary in 4.3.x versions...) Besides, you also need to configure MySQL to handle the Japanese characters. You need to check your configuration/settings in your my.cnf and php.ini. Without any code snippets and environment info, it'll be hard for anybody to help out... - E