Good morning Rodrigo (morning at least here :-) ) Take a look at this link: http://www.shawnolson.net/a/946/ I had the same problem and now it's solved. The problem is that MySQL and maybe another DDBB, they doesn't expect the data to be in utf8. I have added this line: $variable = mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); before to insert the datas and before to select, and now everything is working. Let me now if yor try it and works. Thanks. Serafin Rodrigo Haces wrote: > Hi all: > > Im currently using php to connect to a database in another server, this > is a intersystems cache database. > > if i do a query to my database and the result has special spanish > characters like "´" (á,é,í,ó,ú) it returns me another character, this one > changes from time to time, i just tried to make a test with the isql shell > program, i connect and ask for the same query and in shell it returns the > correct characters. > > If someone can help me please i'll apretiate. > > Thanks > rodrigo -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php