Just a guess: You could perhaps run all your data through base64 encoding or somesuch to be certain the characters to be serialized are all "nice" On Mon, February 19, 2007 8:56 am, Youri LACAN-BARTLEY wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just curious to find out if I'm the only person to have bumped > into > this kind of issue with serialize/unserialize. > > When I try and serialize an array containing a string value with the > "±" > character (alt+241 ASCII) such as : > "120GB 2X512MB 15.4IN DVD±RW VHP FR" > > The resulting serialized array is truncated. > ie. I would obtain : > > "a:17:{i:0;s:1:"A";i:1;s:7:"TOSHIBA";i:2;s:4:"3740";i:3;s:7:"404D862";i:4;s:31:"SATELLITE > A100-044 CD/T2060-1.6";i:5;s:35:"120GB 2X512MB 15.4IN DVD" > > As you can see serialization seems to stall as soon as the "±" > character > shows up. > > Do any of you have the same issue? And what could be a work around for > this sort of problem. > > This has occurred on a Windows XP box running PHP 5.2.0. The string is > obtained from a CSV file using ANSI encoding. > > Thanks, > > Youri > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php