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BJY
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:
Hebrew in php
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I can't seem to use PHP code in the start of my hebrew-language pages.
If I do this....
<HTML dir="rtl" lang="he">
<?php include 'header.inc'; ?>
....all is fine.
However, if I do this at the start of the file...
<?php include 'header.inc'; ?>
.... where header.inc includes the opening HTML tag, the resulting
output is left to right.
If I View Source, there are 2 non-viewable characters before the HTML
tag (they appear as ? in textpad, they don't appear at all in notepad).
If i delete these characters and save the file, the output then
appears correct. (RTL).
The .php and .inc files are saved in UTF-8.
This is a simplified version. What I really need is to be able to do
cookies, output buffering, etc. at the start of the script. I also
would like to use SMARTY, but that too does the same thing.
Any ideas????
Thanks in advance! |
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chernyshevsky@hotmail.com
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Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 871
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:20 pm Post subject:
Re: Hebrew in php
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BJY wrote:
| Quote: | I can't seem to use PHP code in the start of my hebrew-language pages.
If I do this....
HTML dir="rtl" lang="he"
?php include 'header.inc'; ?
...all is fine.
However, if I do this at the start of the file...
?php include 'header.inc'; ?
... where header.inc includes the opening HTML tag, the resulting
output is left to right.
If I View Source, there are 2 non-viewable characters before the HTML
tag (they appear as ? in textpad, they don't appear at all in notepad).
If i delete these characters and save the file, the output then
appears correct. (RTL).
The .php and .inc files are saved in UTF-8.
This is a simplified version. What I really need is to be able to do
cookies, output buffering, etc. at the start of the script. I also
would like to use SMARTY, but that too does the same thing.
Any ideas????
Thanks in advance!
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Looks like your editor is adding a LTR mark at the beginning of the
doc. Because IE treats text outside of <html></htm> as though it's
inside the document body, the character would switch the default
direction back to LTR. Set the dir attribute of <body> instead and it
should work. |
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Benjamin Esham
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Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Posts: 7
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:
Re: Hebrew in php
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* BJY:
| Quote: | I can't seem to use PHP code in the start of my hebrew-language pages.
If I do this....
HTML dir="rtl" lang="he"
?php include 'header.inc'; ?
...all is fine.
However, if I do this at the start of the file...
?php include 'header.inc'; ?
... where header.inc includes the opening HTML tag, the resulting
output is left to right.
If I View Source, there are 2 non-viewable characters before the HTML tag
(they appear as ? in textpad, they don't appear at all in notepad). If i
delete these characters and save the file, the output then appears
correct. (RTL).
The .php and .inc files are saved in UTF-8.
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Can you show us the beginning of header.inc? And possibly a hex dump of the
first line or so? If your file contains a Unicode byte order mark [1],
those are probably the characters messing your file up.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
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Benjamin D. Esham
bdesham@gmail.com | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR!? |
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BJY
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject:
Re: Hebrew in php
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Chung Leong wrote:
| Quote: | Set the dir attribute of <body> instead and it should work.
Chung - Thanks, setting the dir on the body tag did solve this specific |
rtl problem... But i'm still trying to solve the main problem of these
extraneous characters...
Benjamin Esham wrote:
| Quote: | Can you show us the beginning of header.inc? And possibly a hex dump of the
first line or so? If your file contains a Unicode byte order mark [1],
those are probably the characters messing your file up.
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The hex dump of the output indeed shows 'junk' which i don't know where
it comes from:
EF BB BF EF BB BF EF BB BF 3C 48 54 4D 4C
.... where the 3C indicates the start of the <HTML tag
Any idea what makes PHP spit out this at the start of output?
The header.inc is pretty straight-forward:
<HTML dir="rtl" lang="he">
<TITLE>Burritos - בוריטוס - מסעדה מקסיקנית</TITLE>
<script language="javascript" src="burritos.js"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<HEAD>
<style>
<?php include 'burritos.css'; ?>
</style>
..... and then more html
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Benjamin Esham
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Posts: 7
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:
Re: Hebrew in php
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BJY wrote:
| Quote: | Benjamin Esham wrote:
Can you show us the beginning of header.inc? And possibly a hex dump of
the first line or so? If your file contains a Unicode byte order mark
[1], those are probably the characters messing your file up.
The hex dump of the output indeed shows 'junk' which i don't know where it
comes from: EF BB BF EF BB BF EF BB BF 3C 48 54 4D 4C ... where the 3C
indicates the start of the <HTML tag
Any idea what makes PHP spit out this at the start of output?
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I think I've found your problem. From [1]:
| Quite a lot of Windows software (including Windows Notepad) adds one to
| UTF-8 files. However in Unix-like systems (which make heavy use of text
| files for configuration) this practice is not recommended, as it will
| interfere with correct processing of important codes such as the hash-bang
| at the start of an interpreted script. It may also interfere with source
| for programming languages that don't recognise it. For example, [...] in
| PHP, if output buffering is disabled, it has the subtle effect of causing
| the page to start being sent to the browser, preventing custom headers
| from being specified by the PHP script. The UTF-8 representation of the
| BOM is the byte sequence EF BB BF.
It looks like the phantom "EF BB BF" bytes are Unicode BOMs. (Why there are
three of them I have no idea.)
Are you using Notepad? If so, I recommend you use a different editor; if
not, see if there's an option to turn off the inclusion of the BOM. If
you're looking for a new editor, I recommend Vim [2], which has great
support for bidirectional text editing, although it does have a rather steep
learning curve. You might check out the comp.editors group if you have any
further questions about text editing and editors.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
[2] http://www.vim.org
HTH!
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Benjamin D. Esham
bdesham@gmail.com | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take
this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor
the problem which it was intended to solve." — Karl Popper |
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Markus Ernst
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Posts: 61
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject:
Re: Hebrew in php
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BJY schrieb:
| Quote: | The header.inc is pretty straight-forward:
HTML dir="rtl" lang="he"
TITLE>Burritos - בוריטוס - מסעדה מקסיקנית</TITLE
script language="javascript" src="burritos.js"></script
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" /
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BTW I assume that the charset should rather say utf-8.
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