[FX.php List] Re: Encodings utf-8 UTF-16BE etc...

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Python with Mono can make the same output.

ggt

On 7/24/06, Thes Quid <thesquid at friedbaloney.com> wrote:
> Ditch Excel? Wouldn't I like to!
>   But it's what the customers are comfortable with...
> I'll tolerate them using it as long as I can programmatically output
> the files.
>
> > From: ggt667 at gmail.com (Gjermund Gusland Thorsen)
> > Date: Sun Jul 23 06:00:19 2006
> > Subject: [FX.php List] Encodings
> >
> > Excel complicates, try to use a different environment.
> >
> > ggt667
> >
> > On 7/23/06, Thes Quid <thesquid at friedbaloney.com> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone!
> > >
> > > I'm using the output from FX.php to create excel files, but it seems
> > > FX outputs DCR (decimal character representation [like &#09880].
> > > (I'm using lots of different languages mixed together, like chinese/
> > > russian/english)
> > > Excel only likes utf-16. When I use the php Spreadsheet/Write/Excel
> > > PEAR class, it works fine, but that dies if the excel is too big.
> > > The perl module (upon which the php module is based) can handle such
> > > sizes, but it doesn't convert like the php module does.
> > > Question:
> > > Is there a way to tell FX to output utf-16 instead of DCR (also know
> > > as NCR numerical char rep)?
> > > Does anyone know a way to convert from DCR to utf-16? In php or
> > perl,
> > > it doesn't matter.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Dana L. Coe
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> >
>
> Thanks Steve, I already have mbstring compiled in, plus iconv support.
> I18N through PEAR hadn't occurred to me, thanks, I'll give it a try.
>
> > From: shannah at sfu.ca (Steve Hannah)
> > Date: Sun Jul 23 08:19:56 2006
> > Subject: [FX.php List] Encodings
> >
> > This is really a limitation in PHP more than anything as it doesn't
> > natively support multi-byte strings.  However there are some
> > solutions available.
> >
> > 1.  Use the mbstring extension for PHP (it would have to be compiled
> > into your PHP):
> > http://www.php.net/mbstring
> >
> > 2. Use the I18N_UnicodeString PEAR class to convert the strings:
> > http://pear.php.net/package/I18N_UnicodeString
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Steve
>
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