Ronald Wiplinger wrote: > I thought I did it correct to define in the header: > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=utf-8"> > to display chinese characters correct. It works. > > However, if you type in a form directly, than each character will be > translated to UTF-8 with a sequence of #....; > I could then count the numbers of # and had the amount of Chinese > characters. What do you mean by "type in a form directly" ? I also use UTF8, and when I store data from a form, they are in UTF8 in my database. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php