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Windows API: ANSI and Wide-Character Strings -- Is it UTF8 or ASCII? UTF-16 or UCS-2 LE?

I'm not quite pro with encodings, but here's what I think I know (though it may be wrong): ASCII is a 7-bit, fixed-length encoding, with the characters you can find in ASCII charts. UTF8 is an 8-bit, variable-length encoding. All characters can be…
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mb_convert_encoding, undefined function while mbstring is enabled

I have a server (Ubuntu 11.10 x64) running PHP 5.3.8 with Apache2 / MySQL. I'm currently working on a project where I'm required to do some specific character encoding, but I found out that none of the multibyte (mb_* functions) are…
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php sprintf() with foreign characters?

Seams to be like sprintf have a problem with foregin characters? Or is it me doing something wrong? Looks like it work when removing chars like åäö from the string though. Should that be necessary? I want the following lines to be aligned correctly…
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PHP Multi Byte str_replace?

I'm trying to do accented character replacement in PHP but get funky results, my guess being because i'm using a UTF-8 string and str_replace can't properly handle multi-byte strings.. $accents_search =…
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multi-byte function to replace preg_match_all?

I'm looking for a multi-byte function to replace preg_match_all(). I need one that will give me an array of matched strings, like the $matches argument from preg_match(). The function mb_ereg_match() doesn't seem to do it -- it only gives me a…
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multi-byte characters in libc regcomp and regexec

Is there anyway to get libc6's regexp functions regcomp and regexec to work properly with multi-byte characters? For instance, if my pattern is the utf8 characters 猫机+猫, finding a match on the utf8 encoded string 猫机机机猫 will fail, where it should…
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Is it safe to use `strstr` to search for multibyte UTF-8 characters in a string?

Following my previous question: Why `strchr` seems to work with multibyte characters, despite man page disclaimer?, I figured out that strchr was a bad choice. Instead I am thinking about using strstr to look for a single character (multi-byte not…
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Using UTF-8 charset with PHP - are mb functions required?

These past few days I've been working toward converting my PHP code base from latin1 to UTF-8. I've read the two main solutions are to either replace the single byte functions with the built in multibyte functions, or set the mbstring.func_overload…
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How to handle multibyte string in Python

There are multibyte string functions in PHP to handle multibyte string (e.g:CJK script). For example, I want to count how many letters in a multi bytes string by using len function in python, but it return an inaccurate result (i.e number of bytes…
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PHP method for stripping duplicate chars from a multibyte string?

Arrrgh. Does anyone know how to create a function that's the multibyte character equivalent of the PHP count_chars($string, 3) command? Such that it will return a list of ONLY ONE INSTANCE of each unique character. If that was English and we…
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PHP multi-byte alternatives UTF8

I've been searching for UTF8-safe alternatives for string manipulation functions. I've found many different opinions and suggestions. I would like to ask if following functions can cause problems in UTF-8 and if does, what should I use instead. I…
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How to get correct list position in multi-byte string using preg_match

I am currently matching HTML using this code: preg_match('/<\/?([a-z]+)[^>]*>|&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;/u', $html, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $position) It matches everything perfect, however if I have a multibyte character, it counts it as 2 characters…
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How to properly use MultiByteToWideChar

I am using MultiByteToWideChar to convert my string to a wstring. I am first trying to get the required size for my wstring. According to the documentation passing 0 as the last argument should accomplish this. Using MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8,…
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Combine two Bytes to WideChar

Is it possible to combine two Bytes to WideChar and if yes, then how? For example, letter "ē" in binary is 00010011 = 19 and 00000001 = 1, or 275 together. var WChar: WideChar; begin WChar := WideChar(275); // Result is "ē" var B1, B2:…
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Character Encoding UTF8 Issue when using mb_detect_encoding() with PHP

I am reading an rss feed http://beersandbeans.com/feed/ The feeds says it is UTF8 format, and I am using simplepie rss to import the content When i grab the content and store it in $content I perform the following:
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