hi, On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to get data into an MS SQL Server 2005 database. The data > is coming to me as UTF-8 encoded data. Yes, pdo ODBC converts the results from UCS-2 to UTF-8. UCS-2 is what sqlserver uses. > The data is primarily European > languages (so I've got a few accented characters), but I know I've got > Korean, Vietnamese and some Japanese coming later. > > I'm using PHP 5.3.2-dev. The SQL Server is 2005 and the ODBC driver > I'm using is SQL Native Client 10.0 > I've tried using ... > > $s_Recipient = mb_convert_encoding($s_Recipient, 'UCS-2', 'UTF-8'); Why do you want to go back to UCS-2? Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php