PHP MYSQL UNICODE δί-λημμα

... Pause, right click in your Firefox, go to View Page Info, Encoding: What it says? Do you care, I am sure, you don't, coz you know English. But well, west is not all the world, there is sky out side theirs too.

We, at RXS, is in process of capturing that, I chose to begin with SniperSpy for the conversion, and discovered:- "PHP represents strings “abc…” as bytes not individual characters, that is a will take '1' byte, 'b' another 1byte. But Unicode takes up to 6 bytes for some characters, that is 捲 might take '4' bytes, and plus 'a' can take '2' bytes, hence the ? after each letter if you try to print a Unicode character. All internals string functions in PHP are bytes, that is (strlen) string length of 'abc' is 3 normally but 'abc' of Unicode will come 6!

VB6 also don’t supports Unicode for its internal controls, BUT characters are stored as Unicode (UCS-2) and we have script support (VBScript) that can write files in Unicode plus API to convert ASCII to Unicode so the module part is not as difficult to switch to multi-lingual data capture.

Added to this module stores file in Unicodes, UCS-2 format, and MySQL needs UTF-8 format! There is again 8byte difference and again conversions needed, in my text, UCS-2 to UTF-8 leads to conversion of Russian letters to something like Japanese!"

PHP 6 is coming, that is finally going to progess in that line, till then here is a good solution:-

Here

I will also continue as working demo get introduced.

Advanced Parental Control v2 Released

APC 2.0 is released that comes with:

1. Email reporting,
2. Fixing in GUI,
3. New Stealth Enhancement.

"Advanced Parental Control: Protect Youngsters From Harmful Content Online
Advanced Parental Control is a flexible tool for restricting and monitoring the amount of time your children spend online, and what they do with it." - PC PRO July 2008 issue.

Net Spy Pro v4.5 Released

NSP 4.5 is released today which comes along with several updates, I'd been working on last month. The top features includes:-

1. Live Keystrokes Viewer,
2. View shared files, services, processes and applications,
3. Log management through Web panel,
4. Configuration, Change password through Web panel,
5. All new web panel with menu system,
6. Import/Export Log settings, for centralized management of configuration for all workstations,
7. Faster network scanning,


and several updates and bug fixes. Check Net Spy Pro here.

Also, RXS has released Mobile-Spy for Windows Mobile running the latest v6, bringing the compatibility list even longer.

STPI Member

Retina Software (P) Ltd. is a member of STPI, Jaipur now.