Guy Rutenberg » PHP http://www.guyrutenberg.com Keeping track of what I do Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:44:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Question Marks Instead of Non-ASCII Chars when using Gettext in PHP http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2008/11/24/question-marks-instead-of-non-ascii-chars-when-using-gettext-in-php/ http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2008/11/24/question-marks-instead-of-non-ascii-chars-when-using-gettext-in-php/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:54:02 +0000 Guy http://www.guyrutenberg.com/?p=173 Yesterday I’ve ported a PHP website to use Gettext for localizations (l10n). After reading through the Gettext documentation and going through the documentation in the PHP site, I’ve manged to get everything working (almost). I had one problem, all the non-ASCII characters (accented Latin chars, Japanese and Chinese) where displayed as question marks (?) instead of the correct form. This happend despite me using UTF-8 encoded files.

While some people (e.g. this one) suggested that it’s not possible to use non-ASCII characters when using a UTF-8 encoded message files, their is a soultion and it’s quiet simple one. All you have to do is to call bind_textdomain_codset and pass it UTF-8 as charset.

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