Man-wai Chang wrote: >>> MySQL? MSSQL? PgSQL? >>> Tijnema >>> >> It seems he wanted to insert a Chinese character with that hex value. >> > > Yes... I tried the insert with PHP, including the use of > mysql_real_escape_string(), but MySQL still gave me a blank only. Well, this doesn't seem to be PHP related. You'd better ask your answer in MySQL forum/mailing-list. But have you tried to insert your value using MySQL Query Browser? If you can't do that there, it's a problem which is unrelated to PHP. On the other hand, I remember you talked about the type of that column to be char(2). Have you specified what encoding it's using? Moreover, I hope you're not using legacy encoding like Big5 or GB. Use Unicode (UTF-8) if your database is a brand new one. Good luck ---------- * Zoner PhotoStudio 8 - Your Photos perfect, shared, organised! www.zoner.com/zps You can download your free version. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php