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Posted by shror on 09/12/07 07:41
On Sep 12, 10:05 am, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit shror:
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> > On Sep 11, 12:47 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
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> >> For example, if a page is ASCII (or ISO-8859-1) encoded, then the
> >> form data encoding is the same by default, and if you enter an
> >> Arabic character in a form there, the effect is _undefined_ by HTML
> >> specifications. What browsers might do is to represent the
> >> characters that have no representation in the encoding by character
> >> references like ب (or by entity references, when applicable).
> >> This is really odd, since the form data is just character data, not
> >> HTML, but on the other hand, what else could a poor browser do?
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> >> You could tweak your form handler into dealing with such references,
> >> but the real solution is to make the page UTF-8 encoded and to make
> >> the form handler deal with UTF-8 data.
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> > sorry for not sending my URL I know its stupidity but here it is
> >http://www.mobidp.com/request2.htm
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> The situation is basically what I wrote in the quoted text, just with
> windows-1252 (Windows Latin 1) as the encoding. The encoding in unable to
> represent any Arabic letters.
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> The encoding is specified in a <meta> tag, and HTTP headers are silent about
> encoding, so it would be almost trivial to change the encoding to utf-8, by
> modifying the <meta> tag and by replacing all non-ASCII characters (such as
> the copyright sign) by entity or character references (such as ©).
> ASCII data constitutes utf-8 data too.
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> But there's probably much more to be done on the server side, in the form
> handler (confirmation.php). It would need to be modified so that it can read
> utf-8 data and process it meaningfully.
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> The bad news is that PHP does not support utf-8 yet, except in fairly
> limited ways.
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> Alternative tricks:
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> 1) Let the page be windows-1252 encoded, and just get prepared to getting
> stuff like ب. If you pass them into an HTML document, _without_
> encoding the "&" in any way, they will appear as the characters they denote
> by HTML rules. (This is actually the way people have built, probably by
> accident, a poor man's Unicode support to one of the most popular web-based
> discussion forums in Finland, suomi24.fi.) There is no guarantee that this
> will work, but it happens to work in most situations.
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> 2) Make the Arabic page windows-1256 (Windows Arabic) or iso-8859-6 (ISO
> Latin/Arabic) encoded. Your form handler will then get Arabic letters in the
> specified 8-bit encoding. This in principle restricts input to characters
> representable in the chosen encoding, but in practice you usually get a
> &#number; stuff for other characters.
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> P.S. Your form has a single-line input field for "Address", which is
> probably for a postal address, since you also have "E-mail". Normally you
> should reserve a textarea of six lines for input of a postal address, but in
> this case, _if_ you include the postal address input (why?), then I think
> you should have two textareas, one for the address in Latin letters and one
> for the eventual address in the local writing system. According to the
> International Postal Union, a letter sent e.g. to an Arabic-speaking country
> from abroad should have the recipient address in two ways, in Latin letters
> and in Arabic letters.
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> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Really I dont know how to thank your Jukka,
I just changed the encoding to UTF-8 and tryed my <Form> and I
recieved arabic in my email
its now working fine because of your help, I didnt do any thing to the
php script and it worked
Thanks so much
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