QFC: A note for Japanese users

I am currently developing a multi-language application with QFC including Japanese. I found that QF encodes the content of the container with numeric entities. So prior to passing the container's data to a SQL query, one must decode them The following function does the job (found on a mailing list, the PHP manual - quite unusually - is not very clear): function n_to_c( $str ) { /* Decode multibyte numeric entities into UTF-8 Requires multi-byte support */ return mb_decode_numericentity( $str, array(0x0, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF), "UTF-8" ) ; } HTH Ignatius