I wonder if someone could help me in this. I have a table with all the cities of the world (my employeer bought it), but some names are with wrong characters in the mysql table, like: Aabdîne BÄ?dghÄ«s BÄ?mÄ«Ä?n FÄ?ryÄ?b KÄ?pÄ«sÄ? OrÅ«zgÄ?n ... How could I convert those characters into an ascii string? Thanks F. PHP Data object relational mapping generator http://www.metastorage.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/