Hi to all!
I have written a small php script (q.php) which i use as a command line
metasearch utility. The idea is the same as with Yubnub. I assign a
prefix to each search engine i use. Then, when I want to search a
specific search engine, I add the proper prefix to the search keywords
and submit the whole search string to my php script. The php script
parses the string and redirects me to the proper search engine.
I have also created a form that one can use to submit data to the php
script. And the nightmare begins ...
The main problem is that the search engines I use may or may not be in
unicode. Some of them use UTF8, some of them ISO 8859-7 or rarely greek-
windows (take a look at
http://www.papasotiriou.gr/). (yep, i am greek so
i use greek search engines, and many of them dont use unicode:o ) So ...
All redirections work as expected if *no* greek characters are used.
However, if greek characters are used, they sometimes get jumbled.
case 1:
I save q.php as ISO-8859-7.