Comments on: Falling foul of special characters

By: Simon R Jones

Simon R Jones — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:44:00 +0000

Hannes – good tip on mb_ functions for dealing with unicode strings within your code. Hopefully the next version of PHP, be it 5.4 or whatever they decide on, will have pretty solid unicode support for normal string functions too.

Grant – those resources look really useful, thanks.

By: Grant McLean

Grant McLean — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:26:51 +0000

If you need to convert a file (like a database dump) that contains a mixture of ASCII, Latin-1, CP1252 and UTF-8 then you can simply pipe it through fix_latin. This is a script I developed for omving a Postgres DB to Unicode but have since found useful for other purposes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encoding-FixLatin/

Another tool you may find useful is my Unicode Character Finder: http://liip.to/unicode

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By: Hannes

Hannes — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:42:08 +0000

If you’ve Problems with that and use PHP i recommend (if you don’t already have) to make yourself familiar with mbstring -> http://php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php