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How can I show Oracle results in tranditional Chinese(big 5) with PHP?

Feb 16th, 2000 11:08
Matt Gregory, alesi way,

Since chinese has far more characters ( or letters if you will) than 
latin-based languages there are two things you need to keep in mind:
  1.) double the number of bytes needed to store results:
      Each character which forms a word in oriental languages is stored 
      in a two-byte format to accomodate for the huge number of 
      possibilites
  2.) Do not perform any string manipulation functions using the data 
unless you are really-really good at guessing offsets and manipulating 
binary conversions for your characters.  All string functions in PHP 
assume a 1 byte standard ASCII format for the strings being input.
Bottom line: treat chinese text like binary data when sent to the 
client machine.  Let the client browser handle it using a utility like 
njstar (http://www.njstar.com)