Hello, PJ> ANSI is not a character set, it's a standards organisation. You may PJ> have meant ASCII, and the string does look as if it could be ASCII. PJ> The sequences like &#xNNN are HTML-style symbolic entities. Take a PJ> look at htmlentities(). Yes, youre right, my mistake, of course that ASCII. I go try you hint and I will write result. Thank you, Radek -- S pozdravem, Bc. Radek Krejca ICQ: 65895541 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php