[FX.php List] Re: FX.php_List Digest, Vol 26, Issue 20

[Dale Bengston]

Really? UTF-8 creates problems in FMSA5/6 that go away when I use  
ISO-8859-1. The reverse is also true: UTF-8 works with FMSA7/8, but  
ISO-8859-1 does not.

Dale

On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> FM 5-6 can only output UTF-8
>
> ggt667
>
> On 9/13/06, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> FileMaker 6 doesn't know about UTF-8. I believe the problem is not
>> the apostrophe, but the é character.
>>
>> The correct encodings for your pages are:
>>
>> FMSA 7/8
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>>
>> FM5-6U US
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
>> charset=iso-8859-1">
>>
>> FM5-6U EU
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
>> charset=iso-8859-15">
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>> Dale
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Lindal, Mark wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to get a form to search the FM database and having  
>> trouble
>> > remember what to do about apostrophe's.
>> >
>> > Whenever we search on a word like: l'étude I get no results using
>> > the PHP
>> > form.
>> >
>> > On the list.php page I see the form is adding '\' so when I
>> > print_r($_REQUEST) I see: l\'étude
>> >
>> > ok fine - so I then use stripslashes to get it back to l'étude and
>> > put to a
>> > FMFind() on the new data and....
>> >
>> > no results
>> >
>> > However when searching for the same string in filemaker we get the
>> > results.
>> >
>> > What do I need to do? I have a feeling it is something to do with
>> > Filemaker
>> > 6 and the encoding (UTF-8) vs Latin, but what can I do?
>> >
>> > Thoughts please...
>> >
>> > ------------------------------
>> > Mark Lindal
>> > Publications Technician  / Technicien, publications
>> > Canadian Forest Service  / Service canadien des forêts
>> > Natural Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada
>> > Government of Canada     / Gouvernement du Canada
>> > 506 West Burnside Road   / 506, chemin Burnside ouest
>> > Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5     / Victoria (C.-B.) V8Z 1M5
>> >
>> > mlindal at pfc.forestry.ca
>> > 250-363-0603
>> >
>> >
>> >
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