[PHP-DEV] Multiple char encodings for site internationalzation From: Alvin Engler (alvin <email protected>)
Date: 07/29/99

Is there any move towards implementing support for more non-latin
character sets in the works? (the iso 8859-X series and windows Code
pages)

I see the utf8_encode and decode as well as the convert_cyr_encoding
functions, but what about middle eastern and asian languages such as
arabic etc...

http://www.whizkidtech.net/i18n/ references source for a library which
claims to support many international encodings. A generic
convert_encoding($from,$to,$text) function would be very helpful for
me...

For example:

I am in charge of the technical aspects of translating a site into
arabic, and need to serve users who are only capable of displaying one
of 3 arabic encodings (windows code page 1256, iso 8859-6 or UTF-8) as
well as those who do not have an arabic browser at all (dynamic gifs
created with tt fonts).

with such a function I would simply store my base data in UTF-8 form and
convert it using the function based on the user selection or
automatically based on thier user-agent.

I don't feel proficient enough (my c skills are pretty weak) to write my
own module, but it seems that with such a library already in existance
it should be a simple task to write such a function....

Any ideas, have I missed where this functionality is already present in
php?

Alvin Engler 

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