assign japanese string to var

[bhawin13]

Following code contains japanese string that is assigned to variable
$str.
code
=============
<?php
$str = "$B%0%C%I%P%$% T%+%=(B";
?>
=========
When i am executing above program it gives me error as following.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in
/var/www/html/bhavin/mohla1.2.2/b.php on line 3

Do anybody have solution for the above problem.
How can i assign above japanese string($B%0%C% I%P%$%T%+%=(B) to
variable without error.
Thank You
bhawin13

[Philip Ronan]

bh******@indiat imes.com wrote:

Following code contains japanese string that is assigned to variable
$str.
code
=============
<?php
$str = "$B%0%C%I%P%$% T%+%=(J";
?>
=========
When i am executing above program it gives me error as following.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in
/var/www/html/bhavin/mohla1.2.2/b.php on line 3

Do anybody have solution for the above problem.
How can i assign above japanese string($B%0%C% I%P%$%T%+%=(J) to
variable without error.

You're using Shift-JIS encoding, aren't you?

Don't. Use EUC-JP instead.

You're getting problems because the last character ("$B%=(J") encodes as
[&?131;] + [backslash] in shift-JIS encoding. PHP sees the backslash and
escapes your closing quite mark, so the rest of your PHP script is getting
swallowed up by the string. There are lots of other Shift-JIS characters
that cause the same problem.

In EUC-JP encoding, Japanese characters are all encoded with byte codes in
the range 161-255 (or thereabouts), so this problem never happens.

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[bhawin13]

Yes you are right.
I am using Shift-JIS charset.

Is there any solution for above problem with Shift-JIS charset?

Thank You
bhawin13

[Philip Ronan]

bhawin13 wrote:

Yes you are right.
I am using Shift-JIS charset.

Is there any solution for above problem with Shift-JIS charset?

I suppose you could add an extra backslash at the end of the string:

$str = "$B%0%C%I%P%$% T%+%=(J\";

It's messy, but it should work.

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