One more thing:
If you compile PHP with GD and FreeType2 support, you can generate .png graphics with nicely antialiased text in many scripts on the fly. Just feed UTF-8 strings directly to the ImageFTText() function. Take a look at my test script at php.net under the ImageFTText() documentation (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagefttext.php) to see what you can (and can't) do. Of course this technique is useful for displaying non-latin scripts without having to worry about whether your users are using a supported browser and have the necessary fonts. On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Edward H Trager wrote: > > Hi, Roslyn, > > The tools you choose might to some extent depend on your development > environment. Using PHP on GNU/Linux or another *NIX environment, the > following tools will certainly get you started in the right direction. > Plan on using UTF-8 encoding for everything: so you need to calculate > database column widths that will be wide enough to support the UTF-8 > strings: > > -- Yudit (www.yudit.org). > This is a fantastic Unicode editor. It has keyboard maps for just > about every language imaginable, has correct shaping for Arabic and > a number of Indic scripts, and even some handwriting recognition for > Kanji/Hanzi. Command-line tools are also provided for converting > files in different encodings. Of course UTF-8 is supported. > > -- Latest version of Mozilla (www.mozilla.org). Mozilla provides very > good support for rendering a lot of scripts and is very > standards-compliant, maybe the most standards-compliant > browser available. > > -- Edith (www.zfc.nl) is a possibly little-known editor for X11. It is > *not* unicode aware at all, but it has lots of other indispensible features > for coding and development, such as regex-based searching and > replacement, column-wise cut-and-paste, etc. > > What I do is type all non-ASCII strings in Yudit and save the file, write > the ASCII PHP code in Edith (substitute your favorite editor here), open > up the UTF-8 Yudit file in another Edith window, and copy and paste in the > UTF-8 strings (which look awful in a non-unicode-aware editor, but a > good editor doesn't mess with them). > > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, roslyn jose wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > > im new to unicode, and am working on a project in php/postgresql. i need > > some info on how to start off with unicode. i went thro the web site and > > only saw explanations on what it is, its char set,etc. do i need to > > download or install anything to work with unicode, pls let me know soon. > > and also once downloaded do i need to import any classes or files when > > working with it, as im scripting in php and html. thanx > > > > regards, > > > > roslyn > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > > >
