Displaying alternate language

Hi all, I have a small site, all in English right now, and the client wants
visitors to be able to select between English, Polish or Russian. I have the
translation text in MS Word docs. My thought was to store the text in MySQL
tables and then pull it out for display based on a session var. Seems simple
enough, I'm just having a little trouble as to how to format the text
properly.
Can anyone help - how do I get the text, with all the crazy characters, from
Word into a text field in MySQL, and then out to display on the page? Simple
URLencoding didn't work...

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:27:34 +0200, Dave Mennenoh  =

<dave@blurredistinction.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I have a small site, all in English right now, and the client =
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> wants
> visitors to be able to select between English, Polish or Russian. I ha=
ve  =

> the
> translation text in MS Word docs. My thought was to store the text in =
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> MySQL
> tables and then pull it out for display based on a session var. Seems =
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> simple
> enough, I'm just having a little trouble as to how to format the text
> properly.
> Can anyone help - how do I get the text, with all the crazy characters=
,  =

> from
> Word into a text field in MySQL, and then out to display on the page? =
=

> Simple
> URLencoding didn't work...

Urlencoding is only for urls, not for content.

- Use the iconv_* function to all in UTF-8 to let PHP behave nicely.
- Set the field (or table, or database) in the database to utf-8, run "S=
ET  =

names=3D'UTF8'" once on the database connection prior to evry other quer=
y.
- Output a header (either use the default_charset setting in php.ini or =
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output your own header()) informing the UA everything is in UTF8.
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Rik Wasmus