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[Chris Snyder]

I'm relatively new to this myself. If you can use Unicode instead of one 
of the more specialised encodings, I recommend Tim Bray's intro:
http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode

And also Unicode's FAQ at:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/

MySQL supports UTF-8, but I haven't been able to determine if that is 
out of the box, or whether you need to compile it 
--with-extra-charsets=complex. Other multibyte character-sets are 
available, see http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Localisation.html

PHP also supports UTF-8. For multibyte character support, see the 
mbstring extension:
http://us3.php.net/mbstring

This is just basic research I've been doing into making sure that the 
apps I design can handle international deployment-- I have yet to 
actually deal with real world data in anything other than ISO-8859-1. 
And your client probably has a specific character-set they want to 
support, which might make it easier to find a solution.

    chris.


Mark Armendariz wrote:

>Good morning and Happy Tuesday New Yorkers...
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>I'm working on an application that requires the interface (as well as
>the content) to be in English and Chinese.  Unfortunately, I have ZERO
>experience in such things.  I have some ideas as how to accomplish this.
>OSCommerce does it by including a php language file in their configure
>files, which i think seems to be a good way. I also figured maybe
>something with XML or from the database (using php / mysql / apache)
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>Can anyone here reccommend an efficient way or something to look at /
>for to help me move in the right direction?
> 
>Thanks!!!
> 
>Mark Armendariz
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