No they do not. It should be ฟหกด if it is correct. The process is like this: 1. The user enter the data in a form 2. The form data will be used to insert data into the database and send an alert via email about the name and summary of the document. The below is inserted into the database, and is displayed correct on the web site when retrieving the data from the database and using UTF-8 as the charset on the web site. When sending it in text/plain via mail() and charset=utf-8 it is displayed like below. /Peter -----Original Message----- From: tedd [mailto:tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:00 PM To: Peter Lauri; 'Barry'; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Re: Sending UTF-8 mail with mail() At 5:25 PM +0700 6/13/06, Peter Lauri wrote: >That worked "better". Now I at least am getting something that looks like >the same it looks in MySQL database table. However, in the email client >(outlook, gmail, hotmail) it is being showed like this: > >Document name: ´¡¿Ë >Document summary: ´¡Ë¿ > >/Peter > Does the output's font contains those characters? tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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