Hi > Ok, and, FWIW, this test text file is a word document that have saved as a > text file, and when now resaved it using specifically unicode encoding, it > seemd to eliminate this issue, Make sure the MySQL Db, table, field are correctly set for the encoding. MySQL does not default to UTF-8 so you have to manually set it when creating the Db/table. IIRC, newer versions can also have the encoding set per field. > but would have thought there might be a > relatively simple way to handle something like encoding conversion in PHP > itself..? PHP cannot read minds, unfortunately. There are ways to handle encoding conversions, but I don't think anyone would call them 'simple'. ;-) See the Multibyte String extension for one way. -- Niel Archer -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
