Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the same problem but after I struggled with strange characters in Spreadsheet Excel Writer for some time I wrote an article from my lessons learned: http://research.elabs.govt.nz/generating-excel-spreadsheets-with-maori-macrons-in-php/ It contains some example code, hope it helps. Ewen 2009/1/14 <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> > > > The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci. > > Trivia quiz at a MySQL presentation at my Chicago PHP User Group a few year > ago comes in handy! > > The defaults for MySQL are actually latin1_swedish as that is the native > language of the original developer, (?Monty Widenus?) > > This charset differs in only one character (or two chars switched?) from > English. > > It seems unlikely to produce drastic problems in iconv, but I have no idea > what I'm actually talking about. > > We now return you to your regularly scheduled program! > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
