{"id":24,"date":"2008-08-18T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-08-18T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:53:16","slug":"using-utf-8-in-php-gtk2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2008\/08\/18\/using-utf-8-in-php-gtk2\/","title":{"rendered":"Using UTF-8 in PHP-GTK2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An
\nWhen trying to use a string that has characters that are non-English (Asian and middle east characters) or characters that have accents for PHP-GTK’s widgets<\/a>, you may possibly encounter a situation like the image to the right.<\/p>\n

This bug or glitch is caused by the fact that you are trying to use a regional encoding for the application, when in fact you should be passing utf8_encode<\/a>‘ed strings to it. This also happens with non-english characters in an Gettext messages file.<\/p>\n

This can be accomplished with:
\n
\n<?php
\n<\/span>\/\/\u00a0...\u00a0code<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

\/\/\u00a0Instead\u00a0of\u00a0using\u00a0function($nonenglish),\u00a0use function(utf8_encode($nonenglish)) instead
\necho(<\/span>utf8_encode<\/span>(<\/span>file_get_contents<\/span>(<\/span>$argv<\/span>[<\/span>1<\/span>])));<\/span><\/p>\n

\/\/\u00a0…\u00a0code
\n<\/span>?>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The example above outputs the contents of the first parameter. You can use the above script to encode message.mo files with php filename.php<\/em> message.mo > message.mo<\/strong> – though you should consider making a backup.<\/p>\n

For displaying text inside GtkTextView<\/a> (set text via GtkTextBuffer<\/a>) though, you will need to use iconv<\/a> to convert the regional encoding to UTF-8:<\/p>\n


\n<?php
\n<\/span>\/\/\u00a0...\u00a0code<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

\/\/\u00a0For\u00a0conversion\u00a0from\u00a0Windows\u00a0Notepad
\necho <\/span>iconv<\/span>(<\/span>“windows-1252”<\/span>,<\/span>“UTF-8”<\/span>,<\/span>$str<\/span>);
\n<\/span>\/\/\u00a0For\u00a0conversion\u00a0from\u00a0French
\n<\/span>echo <\/span>iconv<\/span>(<\/span>“IBM863”<\/span>,<\/span>“UTF-8”<\/span>,<\/span>$str<\/span>);
\n<\/span>\/\/\u00a0For\u00a0conversion\u00a0from\u00a0Chinese
\n<\/span>echo <\/span>iconv<\/span>(<\/span>“GB2312”<\/span>,<\/span>“UTF-8”<\/span>,<\/span>$str<\/span>);<\/span><\/p>\n

\/\/\u00a0…\u00a0code
\n<\/span>?>
\n<\/span>
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When trying to use a string that has characters that are non-English (Asian and middle east characters) or characters that have accents for PHP-GTK’s widgets, you may possibly encounter a situation like the image to the right. This bug or glitch is caused by the fact that you are trying to use a regional encoding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[90,93,94,864,92,82,11,81,74,91,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}