Re[2]: [PHP] Extended Ascii Characters

Richard: The discussion was in February, I looked and couldn't find what I remembered. So, I'm thinking that the coder sent it to me directly, but I searched my files and again I came up with nothing -- it's not like me to lose code. What I remember was a function that took Unicode HEX and produced the html entities, like those found here: http://www.roborg.co.uk/html_entities/ I will send you off-list what code I have that comes close, but perhaps the original author might resubmit his code. It was a fairly simple "look-up and replace" table, except the table was very extensive. It was a nice piece of work. tedd PS: For sake of clarification, ASCII ranges only from 0 to 127 DEC (HEX 00000-00007F). While 128-255 DEC is commonly referred to as "Extended ASCII", it isn't officially ASCII -- as such, there are differences between OS's (i.e., win v mac). However, Unicode includes everything and handles all "code-points" from 000000 to FFFFFF and divides those into various "char-sets" based upon various criteria (i.e., language, use, etc). So, the "new" words on the block are code-point and char-set. --- previous --- At 5:08 PM +1000 6/2/06, Richard Luckhurst wrote: >Hi Tedd, > >I had a hunt in the archives and couldn't find anything. Do you have any clue >about when it was? > >Richard > >t> At 9:46 AM +1000 6/2/06, Richard Luckhurst wrote: >>>Hi All >>> >>>I am in the process of cleaning up an application that was left half finished. I >>>am fairly new to PHP so I am seeking the wisdom of the community to help with a >>>little problem. >>> >>>In many cases I need to build command strings to be sent to a backend system. >>>The strings have to contain a couple of non ascii characters. >>> >>>I have no problem with the following in a script >>> >>>$RM="\xFF"; >>> >>>Then using the variable works fine within that chunk of php code. >>> >>>What I would like to do is place all of the extended ascii characters in one of >>>the inc files and just use these in various scripts throughout the application. >>> >>>When I try what I get is a test representation rather than the actual ascii >>>code. Ie I get \xFF instead of the ascii character ÿ >>> >>>Is there any way to actually do this in php? >>> >>> >>> >>>Regards, >>>Richard Luckhurst >>>Product Development > > >t> Yes, I think there is -- we discussed this a few months ago on this list and someone >t> wrote a routine to do basically want you want, or so I think -- so check the archives. > >t> tedd > >t> -- >t> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >t> http://sperling.com >t> http://ancientstones.com >t> http://earthstones.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com