Re: Generating UTF Files
| From: | Unknown Sender | Date: | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:50:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating UTF Files | ||
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Jens Kisters wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was asked to generate files in UTF-8 Format, where can i find infos on
> this?
> Is it a multi-byte charset?
> How do i use other charset in PHP? can i just switch to another charset and
> then make $a="a"; where a is the UTF reprensentation of 'a'?
> or will i have to mold bytes together myself using chr() ?
UTF-8 is only an encoding not a charset. You can use utf8_encode() and
utf8_decode in PHP. I think Unicode is often used with UTF-8.
Stig