Hi, thanks, but that seems to be ok: SQL result Host: 127.0.0.1 Database : ---- Generation Time: Feb 15, 2005 at 11:36 PM Generated by: phpMyAdmin 2.5.7-pl1 / MySQL 3.23.58 SQL-query: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%'; Rows: 2 Variable_name Value character_set latin1 character_sets latin1 big5 cp1251 cp1257 croat czech danish dec8 ... any further idea? thanks mario ps of course, I could On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:42, Guillermo Rauch wrote: > Try > SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%' > > and verify your character set is latin1. > > If not, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/charset-database.html > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:04:30 +0000, mario <chiari.hm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > please help me on the following issue. > > please reply to chiari.hm@xxxxxxxxxxx too. > > (I asked for help on the php-db ml, but nobody replied) > > > > I have hacked the following function: > > function accents($text) { > > global $export; > > $search = array ( 'à', 'è', 'ì', 'ò' , 'ù'); > > $replace = array ( '\\`{a}', '\\`{e}', '\\`{i}', '\\`{o}', '\\`{u}'); > > $export = str_replace($search, $replace, $text); > > return $export; > > } > > > > It works fine, as long as I feed it with a string: > > accents('à') --> \`{a} > > > > The issue is when I get 'à' from a mysql table. > > I.e., for some record of a mysql table Table, let à the value of the > > field Field, and say > > $result = mysql_fetch_array($answer, MYSQL_BOTH), > > where $answer= mysql_query(SELECT * FROM Table). > > > > Now accents($result['Field']) returns à (instead of \`{a}). > > Why? I have no idea. > > > > Any hint is welcome. > > Thanks a lot > > mario > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php