Testing UTF8 charaters

Hello,

I am in the process of converting my script to support multi languages. I am using utf8 for my charset and I have mysql and php configured to work with it.

Now I just realized I don't have a way of typing utf8 special characters to test out my script.

I live in the us and I just have a qwerty keyboard and I'm running Windows..

Does anyone if there there is any special software can allow me to enter special characters?

Thanks.

 

I know some software can do that.
you can try type Vietnamese with this tool , it is free unikey.org
Why don't you search for foreign websites and copy their text, Most of Asian website use unicode utf-8.

 

i think you are looking for iconv!! heres and example from php.net
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If you need to strip as many national characters from UTF-8 as possible and keep the rest of input unchanged (i.e. convert whatever can be converted to ASCII and leave the rest), you can do it like this:

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF8');

function clearUTF($s)
{
    $r = '';
    $s1 = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $s);
    for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($s1); $i++)
    {
        $ch1 = $s1[$i];
        $ch2 = mb_substr($s, $i, 1);

        $r .= $ch1=='?'?$ch2:$ch1;
    }
    return $r;
}

echo clearUTF('Šíleně žluťoučký Vašek úpěl olol! This will remain untranslated: ᾡᾧῘઍિ૮');
//outputs Silene zlutoucky Vasek upel olol! This will remain untranslated: ᾡᾧῘઍિ૮
?>

PHP:

-- SOURCE -- http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php

 

Thanks, I didn't think about coping text from other web sites.

 

The Character Map that comes with Windows is a pretty good tool to get unicode characters. I am using XP and it Advanced View that lets you filter and group them.