hi Im grabbing data from the database, which has the utf8_general_ci mysql collation. the problem is that special spanish characters like: "párrafo" print themselves like "p?rrafo" Why? How could i fix this? Im already using this header: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> When i check the data in myPhpMyAdmin it has de "párrafo" value... but when i print it i only get p?rrfo. BTW, im running my apache on Windows and already installed the iconv extension. -- Slds, Andrés Santos, IIG ***************************** cel: (593) 9 7026627 http://www.egobits.com ***************************** 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/