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cyrillic characters with php 4.3.0

Discussion in 'PHP' started by ojav, May 27, 2005.

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    I'm a newbie to both php and mysql, so my question may sound elementary, but nonetheless I haven't been able to figure this out.

    I am designing a website with also a Russian version. This far I have been able to insert cyrillic characters to mysql through the terminal on my mac (the server is Linux, distro is Sol). Obviously I need "koi8_ru" character set on the Php as well, but I haven't been able to figure out the way to do it. Moreover, somewhere on the php.net -page I got the impression that this character set would be supported from only Php 4.3.2 onwards.

    So do I have to upgrade Php on my server, or is it possible to use cyrillic characters on 4.3.0? I wouldn't want to upgrade unless it is absolutely necessary, because my skills with Linux are still somewhat scarce, and I am afraid that the server might be down for days (or maybe weeks if something goes really amiss!!) .

    And, whether I need to upgrade or not, is there a (simple!) HOWTO somewhere explaining what I need to do with PHP? Or if the process is really simple, could someone here tell how I should go about with these cyrillic characters?
     
    ojav, May 27, 2005 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Your best option would be to use the Unicode (UTF-8) charset. Supports any language (not just cyrillic), and works fine with pretty much everything these days (including MySQL and PHP).
     
    digitalpoint, May 27, 2005 IP