when i try to write and hebrew text into the a controller file it show as “????????????”

edit:
also the scaffolding features gives jibrish to my langauge.
thanks.

anyone…..........................?

I don’t have vast experience with languages other than English and Spanish, but it seems to me that your PHP files are saved in one encoding type and being served as another. Try saving them as utf-8 and use one of the following.
In your php:

or in your html:

There are several forum threads about handling internationalization and localization. Thre is one solution based on gettext. I believe that Jozef Hizbrik is working on a i18n/l10n solution that does support the RTL languages. I’m not sure, but I think he is using Harry Fueck’s (harryf) replacement PHP functions for UTF-8 string handling. These were originally developed for the WACT framework.

Do forum searches for ‘internationalization’ and ‘i18n’.

Sorry friends, i am no expert for RTL languages :-(
But i think my UTF-8 HOWTO should be useful for everyone using other encoding than ISO-8859-1.
If your hebrew web page can use some 8-bit encoding (probably Windows-1255 and ISO-8859-8), please use it.
You must patch CI yourself to support UTF-8 (read points 4 and 5 in UTF-8 HOWTO).

sorry for “jumping” the thread but i have a problame.
kinda nooby but:
how do i save a controller file as a UTF-8 I tried putting in the begining:
<? header(“Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8”); ?>
but i get an error that the file needs to be saved as UTF-8…
thanks in advance.

It depends on the editor. It’s usually in the save-as dialog, but I know I’ve seen it in other places in different editors. What editor do you use?

joeles - 09 February 2007 04:38 PM

It depends on the editor. It’s usually in the save-as dialog, but I know I’ve seen it in other places in different editors. What editor do you use?

dreamweaver.
but i solved it with opening it with the “notepad” soft.
but again the scaffolding feature doesnt work with the UTF-8.

Hello,

The scaffolding doesn’t work at all or it shows strange characters too ?

For internationalization, to avoid problems everything should be in UTF-8, from the database to the user browser.
To do so, you should :

- add the following line in your views to tell the user browser to user UTF-8 :

- edit your .php and .html files and save them as UTF-8 with your editor (I personnaly use Eclipse, your can change the settings for the whole project)

- create your database with the UTF-8 setting (with MySQL choose “utf8_general_ci”).

- when you access your database, force the use UTF-8 with the following command before any database query in your models

  (i’ve been forced to do this with MySQL, maybe with other databases it’s not necessary).

Hope this helps,

Tchule.

PS : We should put a link to the wiki on the front page of this site.

In Dreamweaver it’s under: Modify->Page Properties…