Re: Re: languages and PHP

Colin Guthrie wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: >> I work almost exclusively in UTF-8 (language irrelevant), but I've >> never had to do any of the above. The mb_convert_encoding() >> fromUTF-8 to UTF-8 doesn't seem to make much sense? > > I agree. Provided you HTML is dished out with UTF-8 in the doctype > definiton etc. then all forms are automatically sent in UTF-8.... Quite so. > Also for multilingual content (labels etc.) in PHP have a look at the > gettext extension. This will let you code in your default language > with a minimal wrapper and translate to other languages with catalog > files. I haven't done much with gettext yet - I use apache language content negotiation, separate source-files per language, and try hard to keep my PHP code language neutral. /Per Jessen, Zürich