I assume that the comments are collected by a browser form provided by you ! do u use the form attribute "accept-charset" ? I always do and I always use UTF-8 homogeniously throughout my application I never had that problem. "Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft . )" <sandortamas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9AC01674E03A4D76A1B49DAD39B04E31@xxxxxxxxx Hi, I have a mysql database, which the users can insert comments. As the users can be from different countries, with different character encoding, the mysql table can contain various special characters. How can I be sure to display these comments properly? I've found the mb_convert_encoding, and for some characters it works okay, but there are some really special characters which displayed as a '?'. Does anybody know some workarounds? Thanks, SanTa -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php