Re: Japanese character validation

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:36:35 -0600 Eugene Lee <list-php-1@fsck.net> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:20:00AM +0900, - Edwin - wrote: > : > : Besides, there are some issues (for example with > Shift_JIS) that: "bothers" (with no easy "solution") even > members of the Japanese PHP: Group ML. (Like the recent > thread [PHP-users 18803] on: http://www.php.gr.jp/ or > : http://ns1.php.gr.jp/mailman/listinfo/php-users mentioned > about the : SJIS trouble.) > > Force the end-user not to use Shift-JIS. Um, you don't have to do that since YOU as the programmer decides what to use. > It's a brain-dead > format used only for internal processing purposes and not > meant as a for-the-public encoding method. Stick with > something nice like normal JIS or Unicode. "Brain-dead format" compared to JIS? Hehe, maybe you're confused ;) Besides, I guess, more than half of Japanese sites are written in shift_jis. Result of a quick Google search: http://www.io.com/~kazushi/encoding/ Anyway, the easiest way (I find for now) when working with PHP and Databases (MySQL, etc.) is to use "euc-jp". There are times though that you are "forced" to use "shift_jis" e.g. when working with sites for i-mode's browsers. If that's the case, just use the mb_* functions to convert from euc-jp to shift_jis... - E - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/