> You did not answer the most important question. What, if any, output > buffering are you using? Are you using the mbstring module? If so, is > it set to overload the old string functions? Well, i checked for Multi Byte String functions, and it was enabled and configured before compiling with "=all". After performing the query with pg_query, fetching the result with pg_fetch_all and putting the utf8 string into $dbString I tried to detect the encoding with: mb_detect_encoding($dbSring) I tells me: ASCII The content of $dbString is: lacarrière I overloaded the mbstring variables with: mbstring.func_overload = 6 Setting it to "7" won't let me even echo something else. mbstring.encoding_translation = On mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF8 That's it, rest is default. Is it possible for mbstring to overload the pg-functions I need? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php