Hi Niel That's the problem I don't know what it is, but I do know that I press the hyphen/minus key on my keyborad. If I type in 'The -' then press enter and copy and paste this from word, it then gets displayed as question mark in Oracle. David -----Original Message----- From: Niel Archer [mailto:Niel Archer] On Behalf Of Niel Archer Sent: 16 November 2006 13:26 To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Special Character Hi Is it really a hyphen, or is it an en- or em-dash. The latter two could mess up in in some character sets. Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php