Hello, What is your database program? If your database program is MySQL, what is your default charset of database? These questions are more importont to solve your problem.:) -- Haydar TUNA Republic Of Turkey - Ministry of National Education Education Technology Department Ankara / TURKEY Web: http://www.haydartuna.net "Don Don" <progwihz@xxxxxxxxx>, haber iletisinde sunlari yazdi:839035.61217.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi all, > my program outputs some characters along with text from the database, > these texts contain chars like â?~ â?T. How can i get rid of theses chars > and display their meaning instead ? I am thinking htmlspecialchars or > html entities will do the job will it ? > > > Cheers > > > --------------------------------- > Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate > in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php