Hi Tedd, I had a hunt in the archives and couldn't find anything. Do you have any clue about when it was? Richard t> At 9:46 AM +1000 6/2/06, Richard Luckhurst wrote: >>Hi All >> >>I am in the process of cleaning up an application that was left half finished. I >>am fairly new to PHP so I am seeking the wisdom of the community to help with a >>little problem. >> >>In many cases I need to build command strings to be sent to a backend system. >>The strings have to contain a couple of non ascii characters. >> >>I have no problem with the following in a script >> >>$RM="\xFF"; >> >>Then using the variable works fine within that chunk of php code. >> >>What I would like to do is place all of the extended ascii characters in one of >>the inc files and just use these in various scripts throughout the application. >> >>When I try what I get is a test representation rather than the actual ascii >>code. Ie I get \xFF instead of the ascii character ÿ >> >>Is there any way to actually do this in php? >> >> >> >>Regards, >>Richard Luckhurst >>Product Development t> Yes, I think there is -- we discussed this a few months ago on this list and someone wrote a routine to do basically want you want, or so I think -- so check the archives. t> tedd t> -- t> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ t> http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php