Re: Thanks for Your Help

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

Salam,

well now you've split the site into english and arabic, which is fine by
the terms, that it shows up correctly, but it's not the ideal solution
in my opinion.

To convert (sounds kinda like "convert or die" out of the chronicles of
riddick..) to utf-8, you first have to declare the charset of your
html-doc to be utf both by giving the correct header
header("content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'");
as well as the right charset settings inside html:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

But that's not everything - not by a long shot. For arabic to work you'd
have to somehow tranform each character into the equivalent
utf8-character. From a latin (german, french..) character into utf8 it's
simply the function utf8-encode(...). I don't know how it would work for
arabic. One option is to type your arabic text in an utf8-enabled editor
like firstobject's xml-editor [1] or jedit [2]. But that way you can't
reedit your files inside a non-utf8-editor..

[1]: http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm
[2]: http://www.jedit.org/

Salam.

Omar

http://www.toomuchcookies.net
http://www.islaminhannover.de
(both utf8 but with some glitches)

Aziz wrote:
> Salam alikom,
>
> well that mmix up with regular HTML based meta tags?
>
> I just want to insure that its ok before doing it,
>
> Thanks,
> Aziz
>
> On 5/20/05, Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de> wrote:
>
> > Assalamu Alaykum,
> >
> > i see my script has travelled. And i agree with the other guys: you
> > should convert your text to utf8. In php you set utf8 charset with
> >
> > header("content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'");
> >
> > Then you'd have to convert the arabic text, i think that's a little bit
> > tricky..
> >
> > Salam.
> >
> > Omar Abo-Namous
> >
> > Aziz wrote:
> >
> > > Salam Alikom,
> > >
> > > Just wanted to let you know guys that I am very thankful for your help
> > > and script that you provided me to make Prayer Times script.
> > >
> > > I am currently done with the site (in both en,ar) alhumdililah, which
> > > is: http://www.IslamPrayerTimes.com.
> > >
> > > The PHP scripts (one I did, the other islamas.lt did, both based on
> > > Arabeyes project) can be found here:
> > >
> > > http://www.islamprayertimes.com/free_prayer_times_php_script.php
> > >
> > > Please tell me what you think and how I can improve the service.
> > > Keeping in mind that both scripts will stay open source for Islamic
> > > websites to enable them put prayer times on their sites.
> > >
> > > I appreciate any suggestions/comments/ideas,
> > >
> > > Jazakulallah khurein again,
> > >
> > > Aziz
> > >
> > >
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