[i-creations]

Hi there

Need some big help!!

I have a program running that uses IMAP to read an email off the server then display it on a web page.

What I want to do is rather than displaying it on a web page, to save it as a text file on server

I managed to do that but the character set is a big problem

the programme puts the main message of the email into a variable
&body

however this is not readable as it is decoded for iso-2022-jp
therefore, when &body is saved as a text file the message is unreadable

i need the &body in the Shift_JIS format
is there any way during the saving of the text file process to convert iso-20220jp into Shift_JIS then save on the server so its readable

thanks in advance for any help
yours
tok
japan

[blaw]

Hi.

The best way to deal with Japanese encoding (or any multi-byte codes) in PHP is to use mbstring extension. I believe there is a function(s) that converts among those Japanese encoding scheme, including the ones you are inquiring about. I assume you read Japanese:

PHP.net Manual mbstring
http://www.php.net/manual/ja/ref.mbstring.php

I believe it's bundled with PHP by default (ver.4.2x or later), but you must enable it when you compile PHP with --enable-mbstring (and --enable-mbstr-enc-trans if your PHP is earlier than 4.30 and --enable-mbregex if you need Japanese regular expressions).

If you somehow can't do this (e.g. shared server, don't-know-how, etc), you can try jcode.phps, which does not require any modification to your PHP setting:

http://www.spencernetwork.org/

Finally there are many articles written in Japanese that deal with Japanese encoding scheme in PHP, as well as the Japanese PHP communities (such as http://www.php.gr.jp/ ) - you may want to check those out, too.

Good luck.