1. Set charset to kanji for your html pages using
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=kangi');
2. In phpMyAdmin choose Japanese with kangi encoding for the interface language.
3. Set kangi encoding for your emails, preferably use a class that allows you to specify encoding easily.
Dave G wrote:
PHP Gurus, Hello, I'm new to this list. I'm very much new to PHP, so my questions will be very basic. I have two things I need to do in Japanese:
1. Store people's names in kanji in my MySQL database. To this end, I've set up an INSERT command without doing anything different than usual, and then at the HTML interface, just typed in some Japanese text (on an English Windows XP machine, Opera 7.2, using Microsoft's global IME text entry). When I looked in my database via phpMyAdmin, the field looked like it was filled with ASCII gibberish.
2. Send kanji text via PHPs mail() command. I've set up a form on a web page, that posts to a PHP script that will send me feedback from the users. Again, I didn't set up anything different than I would for English usage. When I received the mail, it came out as ASCII gibberish again.
I've searched some on the web, and in this lists archives, and I understand that I can possibly use mbstring functions in order to resolve this. However, the manual for this function on php.net is a little beyond my ability to understand it. I'm confused by the need to set "internal encoding", and/or also setting the "character set". My web site is on a virtual host, and I don't know if I have access to make such adjustments.
Can someone please explain in beginners terms how do I set up my PHP scripts to enter Japanese kanji safely into a database and into an email?
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