Php Arabic characters are not concatenated correctly

Question

This is what I want to achieve:

تلر

This is the problem:

$a = "ت";
$l = "ﻝ";
$z = "ر";

$word = $a.$l.$z;
echo $word;

Prints:

ت‌ل‌ر

while:

echo "تلر";

prints:

تلر

Actually there are no white-spaces but if you try this code (remember to allow utf-8) you will see that the letters won't combine. It works when the letters are combined directly. But as I combine then one by one like: $a.$b.... they wont combine.

Any ideas how I could solve this?

I came across this problem before, are you using jquery, jquery ui or any javascript that control your display into the browser ?? — Ahmed Kato, Dec 26 '12 at 20:27
in my case, I was using jquery ui combobox to display arabic options and the error was in the jquery ui library , I removed the tag , I think your problem is a pure client side problem , your php code is correct, try to use another browser and check if your client side code is alright. — Ahmed Kato, Dec 26 '12 at 20:35
Tried it in chrome, EI, firfox and it's not working. nofont just normal echo — Kilise, Dec 26 '12 at 20:47
Hmm ye, after checking your last edit it doesn't work for me aswell. — smottt, Dec 26 '12 at 20:48

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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Your second single character is U+FEDD while the second character in تلر is U+0644. Use the proper characters and it works:

$a = "ت";
$l = "ل";
$z = "ر";
var_dump("تلر" === $a.$l.$z);

You might want to have a look at How to decode Unicode escape sequences like “\u00ed” to proper UTF-8 encoded characters?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Dec 26 '12 at 21:28

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You are right. But problem is that if there is no space between `ت` and the next character of it in string it should be automatically converted into the `U+0644`. We can NOT have `U+FEDD` between two characters without spaces. – Arash Milani Dec 26 '12 at 21:34
I agree with @Arash Milani – Kilise Dec 27 '12 at 09:35
@ArashMilani Well, PHP is not a word processor. It just prints what you tell it to print. – Gumbo Dec 27 '12 at 10:45

echo_Me · Answer 2 · 2012-12-26T21:58:21.600

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try to make this encoding instead of utf-8

 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256 "/>

EDIT:

the most popular encoding for arabic language are :

      Windows-1256, ISO 8859-6, and UTF-8.

EDIT: for it will work , you must set your editor also the encoding to windows-1256 and if u are getting strings from database , you must set encoding for database to windows-1256 and should work

edited Dec 26 '12 at 21:58

answered Dec 26 '12 at 21:11

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Doesn't make any difference. – Kilise Dec 26 '12 at 21:14
Normaly I use: . Tried with windows-1256 changed encoding and still no result. – Kilise Dec 27 '12 at 09:50

Php Arabic characters are not concatenated correctly

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