Hi all How is the character set of returned data effected? I have a DB using UTF-8 encoding., PHP is set to use UTF-8 internally. However the MySQL connection returns Latin1 data. How can I get it to return UTF-8 data instead. TIA Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php