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Bug #7783 Problem when display some word in Chinese(Big5)
Submitted: 2000-11-13 09:49 UTC Modified: 2000-11-14 06:08 UTC
From: gtp at gtp dot idv dot tw Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-11-13 09:49 UTC] gtp at gtp dot idv dot tw 
When I use this
echo ('????');
or
echo ("????");
("????" is a Chinese(Big5) Word, mean success)
Will cause prase error.

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 [2000-11-14 05:50 UTC] gtp at gtp dot idv dot tw 
This word is
A6 A8 A5 5C
 [2000-11-14 06:08 UTC] stas@php.net 
PHP does not support Unicode ot UTF-8 on parser-level. So I
guess you better use \xDD notation, where DD are hexadecimal
digits. Like that:

"\xA6\xA8\xA5\x5C"

Maybe in the (distant) future language parser would support
UTF-8, but now it does not.
 
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