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Updated calls to current Smarty API (register_function()/register_modifier()/register_block() -> registerPlugin(); assign_by_ref() -> assignByRef()). Fixed file includes in templates with quotes. Removed SmartyValidate.class.php includes. Still work in progress as some errors still appear!
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Charset Encoding
Charset Encoding
There are a variety of encodings for textual data, ISO-8859-1 (Latin1)
and UTF-8 being the most popular. Unless specified otherwise with the
SMARTY_RESOURCE_CHAR_SET constant, Smarty recognizes UTF-8 as the
internal charset if Multibyte String is
available, ISO-8859-1 if not.
Note
ISO-8859-1has been PHP's default internal charset since the beginning. Unicode has been evolving since 1991. Since then it has become the one charset to conquer them all, as it is capable of encoding most of the known characters even accross different character systems (latin, cyrillic, japanese, ...).UTF-8is unicode's most used encoding, as it allows referencing the thousands of character with the smallest size overhead possible.Since unicode and UTF-8 are very wide spread nowadays, their use is strongly encouraged.
Note
Smarty's internals and core plugins are truly UTF-8 compatible since Smarty 3.1. To achieve unicode compatibility, the Multibyte String PECL is required. Unless your PHP environment offers this package, Smarty will not be able to offer full-scale UTF-8 compatibility.
// use japanese character encoding
if (function_exists('mb_internal_charset')) {
mb_internal_charset('EUC-JP');
}
define('SMARTY_RESOURCE_CHAR_SET', 'EUC-JP');
require_once 'libs/Smarty.class.php';
$smarty = new Smarty();