Re: [PHP] 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
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