Sorry for really late reply to the message. I didn't notice.
"Hironori Neal Sato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.
PostgreSQL works perfectly with many multi-byte char code sets also. Including
many EUCs, SJIS, JIS, UTF8, etc. And it does different char set on server and
client side. (i.e. I can use SJIS on client side while DB uses EUC-JP)
>
> >>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.
There are Japanese extentions. I use it and works perfectly with PHP4.0.4pl1 as
Apache DSO.
Charset conversion both manual and automatic, multi-byte charset reguler
expression, Japanese char handling for email, etc.
I heard the athour is working to make it standard PHP4 extention now.
PS: I think I post where to get it on this list when someone asks for it. Or
mail me if you really need it.
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
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