On Sun, March 18, 2007 5:57 am, Don Don wrote: > my program outputs some characters along with text from the > database, these texts contain chars like â?? â??. 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 ? Without knowing what those chars are, or what you expect them to be, it's hard to say... Perhaps try setting your php.ini default charset to UTF-8 and add a META tag in your HTML HEAD to set the charset to UTF-8. Or, perhaps, you want to use htmlentities to get, errr, whatever it is you want to get. -- 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