[FX.php List] Problem with text formatting

[Joel Shapiro]

Hey Bob

There was a thread on TechTalk a while back ("Encoded characters in  
fx-php") with a solution they finally found for their problem.  Don't  
know if this would help you:

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The solution, when writing a field to FileMaker that may include
funny characters, is to utf8_encode() the value before writing it.

Thus:
$query->AddDBParam('fieldname', utf8_encode($value));

The FX function SetDataParamsEncoding() sounds like it's supposed to
accomplish the proper encoding of the value to be passed to FileMaker
but doesn't appear to help in this situation.

Hope this helps - I've read on the web that a lot of other people
have reported this same problem.
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HTH,
-Joel


On Aug 14, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> After spending 27 hours on a project for a firm that does Japanese  
> translation work, they're now telling me that they're unable to use  
> the UTF-8 encoding that I used on all their forms.
>
> According to my client, if we use UTF-8 on the forms, they'll not  
> show properly on some Windows machines. Is this true?
>
> I'm using this tag:
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> My client wants to use:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;  
> charset=Shift_JIS" />
>
> When I try to use his META tag, the forms don't process, and I get  
> a 958 error (I think that was the #).
>
> Has anyone had any experience with this? I'm now worried that  
> they're going to stiff me on almost $2000 outstanding, so this is a  
> serious situation.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
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