Convert a single byte string to a two byte string

Question

I want the string Game convert Ｇａｍｅ . This string is a Japanese double byte string.

Is it possible to achieve this with PHP? If so, how?

Answer 1

First of all, Ｇａｍｅ not ASCII encoded, so you may need to set the Content-type page title to see the correct output:

 header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); 

Then you can convert it using this function

 echo mb_convert_kana('Game', "R", 'UTF-8') 

EDIT:

For MySQL, I could not find a converter to do the same. However, you can convert it manually at the Hex level, for example, you can get the word Ｇａｍｅ as follows

 SELECT CHAR(0xefbca7, 0xefbd81, 0xefbd8d, 0xefbd85) as `Full Width`; 

So, we can just write a mapping function in MySQL that replaces characters using this table

Answer 2

Well, I can’t say for sure whether I received your question correctly, but the following console is single-line:

 $ php -r 'var_dump(mb_convert_encoding("Game", "UCS-2"));' 

gives me the following:

 string(8) "\000G\000a\000m\000e" 

Is this what you want? As Mark Baker already said, this is just the mb_convert_encoding case for you.

Answer 3

you can try this function mb_convert_kana