Hello Mark, Monday, May 30, 2005, 4:18:20 PM, you wrote: MS> I have my settings in php.ini set for UTF-8, and the encoding for MS> the mysql database table's column that is using Japanese to UTF-8. MS> Now, if I view the data stored in that column in phpmyadmin, via MS> say, firefox, it displays in UTF-8, but, if I pull the code from MS> the database and display it in a UTF-8 set page, it is just ? MS> marks, although static J text displays fine...any thoughts on MS> this..? Driving me nutz. Cheers. Are you doing anything to the data after you've pulled it back from MySQL? Perhaps parsing it, or pushing it through a PHP function that might convert it back to Latin1? (i.e. using non-overloaded PHP functions when you should be using the mb functions) Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php