(I'm only cc'ing to php-i18n)
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:22:37AM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote:
>I'm currently working a project that is intended to handle Japanese
>character sets - and now I'm told ideally iMode too. :) The iMode isn't
>such an issue at the moment - but the article below has spooked me a
>little. At an early point in the project we tested if putting some input
>into a web form, which ultimately was handled by php then stored in
>postgres would return fully intact - and it did. This left me comfortable
>that PHP and Postgres don't seem to care what language they're storing in
>fields or variables. I'm 'guessing' that this is because the data, whether
>its English or Japanese is being stored in binary (or something else?). Of
>course I wouldn't be able to sort the data or do anything else that would
>require PHP/Postgres to be able to interpret the data. However if I compile
>Postgres with locals support for the character set/language in question -
>then postgres will be able to sort Japanese. Is this right?
I haven't touched Postgres in last four years, but I would assume you
are correct. As far as MySQL goes, you can set locale (actually,
charset) and sorting Japanese text should work just fine.
>>Since r-newbold.com is in Japanese only, Studio Omame made sure to utilize
>>PHP's Japanese character set conversion functions. However, this proved to
>>be a challenge.
>
>Is this available for v4 of PHP yet?
So far, the answer is no. I have attempted to implement Japanese
extension to PHP4 before, but bumped into few problems. At that time,
I had to quit working on it since I ran out of my spair time. But,
we do have someone else working on this issue. I don't have any
dates though.
For time being, you can check out the latest version 3 that we rolled
out at http://www.php.gr.jp/project/i18n/ . I have also written
English README at http://www.php.gr.jp/project/i18n/README.i18n_eng.html .
I hope that will get you started.
Hiro
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