charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

∟charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

This chapter provides tutorial notes on character set encodings for Chinese Web pages. Topics include Chinese encoding options; using meta tags in HTML documents; testing Chinese Web pages with UTF-8, GB18030, and Big5 encodings.

Chinese Character Set Encoding Options

HTML Document Travel Path

Chinese Web Pages with UTF-8 Encoding

Chinese Web Pages with GB18030 Encoding

Chinese Web Pages with Big5 Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding Pages with GB18030 Characters

Takeaways:

There 3 commonly used encoding options for Chinese characters: UTF-8, GB18032/GB2312 and Big5.
It is strongly recommended to UTF-8 encoding, since much more text editors, Web servers and Web browsers support UTF-8 than GB18032/GB2312 and Big5.
HTML documents that uses UTF-8 encoding must be declared with the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> statement in the <head> section.
Characters must encoded with the encoding declared in the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=xxxxx"/> statement. Otherwise, they will be displayed as garbled text.

Table of Contents

About This Book

PHP Installation on Windows Systems

Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

►charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

Chinese Characters in PHP String Literals

Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

Input Text Data from Web Forms

Input Chinese Text Data from Web Forms

MySQL - Installation on Windows

MySQL - Connecting PHP to Database

MySQL - Character Set and Encoding

MySQL - Sending Non-ASCII Text to MySQL

Retrieving Chinese Text from Database to Web Pages

Input Chinese Text Data to MySQL Database

Chinese Text Encoding Conversion and Corruptions

Archived Tutorials

References

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