Chinese Web Sites Using PHP - v2.23, by Herong Yang
Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to UTF-8 Web Forms
This section provides a test on copying and pasting Chinese input text from GB18030 and Big5 Web pages to UTF-8 encoded Web forms.
After tried Web form with Chinese input text with 4 different encodings: UTF-8, GB18030, and Big5, I wanted to try to copy and paste Chinese text from one Web page window to another Web page window with a different encoding.
I did the following to copy and pasted Chinese text from GB18030 and Big5 Web pages to a Web form with UTF-8 encoding:
1. Ran IE with this URL: http://localhost/Web-Form-Input-Chinese-UTF8.php, and removed the default text from the input box.
2. Ran another IE window with this URL: http://localhost/Web-Form-Input-Chinese-GB18030.php. Copy and paste the Chinese characters from this page to the input box of the UTF-8 page. The Chinese characters shows up in the input box correctly.
3. Entered a forward slash (/) in the input box of the UTF-8 page.
4. Ran another IE window with this URL: http://localhost/Web-Form-Input-Chinese-Big5.php. Copied and pasted the Chinese characters from this page to the input box of the UTF-8 page. The Chinese characters showed up in the input box correctly.
6. Clicked the Submit button on the UTF-8 page. The pasted characters were received and returned back to the returning Web page. The returned Chinese characters showed up correctly.
The returning page URL also confirmed that Chinese characters were copied and pasted correctly:
http://localhost/Web-Form-Input-Chinese-UTF8.php ?Input=%E7%94%B5%E8%A7%86%E6%9C%BA%2F%E9%9B%BB%E8%A6%96%E6%A9%9F &Submit=Submit
This test shows that IE is smart, it automatically converts the pasted Chinese characters from GB18030 and Big5 encoding to UTF-8 encoding in a Web page form encoded as UTF-8.
Table of Contents
PHP Installation on Windows Systems
Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server
charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages
Chinese Characters in PHP String Literals
Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding
Input Text Data from Web Forms
►Input Chinese Text Data from Web Forms
Processing Chinese Input on Web Forms in UTF-8
Processing Chinese Input on Web Forms in GB18030
Processing Chinese Input on Web Forms in Big5
►Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to UTF-8 Web Forms
Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to GB18030 Web Forms
Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to Big5 Web Forms
MySQL - Installation on Windows
MySQL - Connecting PHP to Database
MySQL - Character Set and Encoding
MySQL - Sending Non-ASCII Text to MySQL
Retrieving Chinese Text from Database to Web Pages
Input Chinese Text Data to MySQL Database