A way around iconv

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Including iconv into php seems to be breaking my server. I was wondering there was another way to use this function.

Including iconv into php seems to be breaking my server. I was wondering there was another way to use this function.

for what purpose you want to use iconv?

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Well, it is for that Chinese pdf stamp... I was looking into changing the mysql encoding as an alternative, as I will be storing the Chinese on the server and then it will be the source for the stamper.

is this data stored witch utf-8 encoding?

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I would say so... I was trying to use this function:

Code:

<?php
   iconv("ucs-2","GB2312",hex2bin(base_convert(substr($str,2,5), 10, 16)));
?>

But iconv seems to be out of the question for me now...

but why do you need to convert the characters?
you can show them with utf-8 or not?

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Check first the alternative functions here.

The ivonv extension needs to be compiled with php, so if you just add the .so (or .dll) file it wont work anyway.

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There are no alternative functions really. I have tried libiconv too but it is not included in the php. We tried compiling it with php but it brought down every site on the server... not good!

I was wondering if there was another way around this.

the Chinese characters are stored like this ...

Code:

  // & # 33756; & # 33756;  <- without the spaces

and they need to look like this ...

Code:

  // ' ²{? &#201; ? &#240;· &#197; 18 C &#192;&#227;«&#215; 83 %'

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BTW do you have support for chinese in the machine you are testing?

It is a dump question, but some times the problem is that easy....

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My laptop sees the Chinese characters no problem and they are stored in mysql db no problem. It is just the pdf stamp that requires the characters in GB2312 encoding.

Maybe I just need to sort out this issue with getting iconv to work!?

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Maybe I just need to sort out this issue with getting iconv to work!?

That would be the best way, but as it going to take you some time, I suggest to see what happens if you change the mysql encoding

It is just the pdf stamp that requires the characters in GB2312 encoding.

does this pdf tool not work for you with utf-8 encoding?

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Yeah the stamp works, but for Chinese I need to convert the encoding...

The language of the db is English-iso-8851-1. What would happen if I changed it to Traditional Chinese Big5? Would it affect all the data that iis in there OR all the data that is stored after the change?

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I guess the only way to find out is to do it

Yeah the stamp works, but for Chinese I need to convert the encoding...

The language of the db is English-iso-8851-1. What would happen if I changed it to Traditional Chinese Big5? Would it affect all the data that iis in there OR all the data that is stored after the change?

so you have a mix of iso-8859-1 and chinese?

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True and the Chinese looks like the above example (one without the spaces).

We are going to try again on the weekend to update php to include iconv. So I will keep you posted! Thanks for the help guys!

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True and the Chinese looks like the above example (one without the spaces).

We are going to try again on the weekend to update php to include iconv. So I will keep you posted! Thanks for the help guys!

Good luck with the recompilation man

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The recompilation now has iconv in it, but I still seem to be battling with the results! Why is this not working???

Code:

<?php

$pdf = new PDF_Chinese();
$pdf->AddBig5Font();
$pdf->Open();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Big5','',20);

$str = '& # 33756;';   // <- no spaces
$tmp = substr($str,2,5);
$tmp2 = base_convert($tmp, 10, 2);
$tmp3 = iconv("latin1","GB2312", $tmp2);
$tmp4 = iconv("latin1","BIG5", $tmp2);

$pdf->Write(10,"str : $str
tmp : '.$tmp.'
tmp2: '.$tmp2.'
tmp3: '.$tmp3.'
tmp4: '.$tmp4");

$pdf->Output();
?>

And here is my result:

str : & # 33756;  <- no spaces
tmp : 33756
tmp2: 33756
tmp3: 1000001111011100
tmp4: 1000001111011100

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What if you replace the & # with &

I know this is not the solution you are looking for, but propably it will work...

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Well the line...

Code:

<?php
$tmp = substr($str,2,5);
?>

removes the & # from the line anyway.

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