PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.17, by Herong Yang
Characters of Multiple Languages in String Literals
This section provides a tutorial example on how enter and use characters of multiple languages in a single PHP script with Unicode UTF-8 encoding.
After going through the above examples, you should feel comfortable now on how to handle non-ASCII characters of any single language. You have a choice of using UTF-8 or a language specific encoding.
If you want to have characters of multiple languages in a single PHP script, then you have to use UTF-8 encoding. Here are the steps you can follow make a PHP script in UTF-8 for a number of languages.
1. On a Windows system, run Start > All Programs > Accessories > Notepad.
2. In Notepad, enter the following PHP script:
<?php # HelpUtf8MultiLanguages.php #- Copyright 2009 (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved. # print('<html>'); print('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"'. ' content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>'); print('<body>'); print('<b>Test</b><br/>'); print('English: Hello world!<br/>'); print('Spanish: ¡Hola mundo!<br/>'); print('Korean: 여보세요 세계 !<br/>'); print('Chinese: 你好世界!<br/>'); print('</body>'); print('</html>'); ?>
3. Don't try to enter those hello messages yourself. Go to the Google language tool site, google.com/language_tools. You can enter "Hello world!" and translate it to other languages. On the translation output page, just copy those translations and paste them back to Notepad. This should cause no corruption, because Google site, Windows IE, and Notepad all support UTF-8.
4. Select menu File > Save as. Enter the file name as HelloUtf8MultiLanguages.php. Select "UTF-8" in the Encoding field and click the Save button.
5. Copy HelloUtf8MultiLanguages.php to c:\apache\htdocs. Make sure your Internet Information Service is running the local default Web site.
6. Now run Internet Explorer (IE) with http://localhost/HelloUtf8MultiLanguages.php. Your should see all characters displayed correctly.
7. On the IE window, select menu View > Encoding. You should see UTF-8 is selected.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Installation of PHP
PHP Data Types and Data Literals
Variables, References, and Constants
Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions
Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"
Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"
Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values
Interface with Operating System
Introduction of Class and Object
Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server
Retrieving Information from HTTP Requests
Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts
Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts
Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts
MySQL Server Connection and Access Functions
Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images
SOAP Extension Function and Calling Web Services
SOAP Server Functions and Examples
Localization Overview of Web Applications
Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents
►Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals
Basic Rules of Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents
French Characters in String Literals - UTF-8 Encoding
French Characters in HTML Documents - ISO-8859-1 Encoding
Chinese Characters in String Literals - UTF-8 Encoding
Chinese Characters in String Literals - GB2312 Encoding
►Characters of Multiple Languages in String Literals
Receiving Non-ASCII Characters from Input Forms
"mbstring" Extension and Non-ASCII Encoding Management
Managing Non-ASCII Character Strings with MySQL Servers
Parsing and Managing HTML Documents
Configuring and Sending Out Emails
Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS