Thank you for your time and response. I have checked if the text is surviving the paste buffer - it is. (I did a character by character comparison of the text one pasted in the web form, but before hitting submit.)
The problem characters are the ASCII backslash and the ASCII tilde - Good to know, I will eliminate those, although there are still many more problem characters. How do I catch what's going into IIS and what's coming out? Also, what's going into MyODBC and what's coming out of that? - I will post a separate message to the list with this as the only question. I declare the doctype with <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">. My code is exactly what Shashank Tripathi posted in another response to my post - which he says works perfectly for him on Windows/ASP/MySQL. I am not displaying Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English on the same page: each page is intended for a single language audience. However, both Shashank Tripathi and you suggested using UTF-8 anyway. I will reserve this as a possible solution. Thank you for the idea. Good to know I have options. I'm sure I'll be posting questions on that later if it comes to it. What do you mean by "Installed, but not selected." So MySQL is using Latin...but with support for multi-byte charsets. Thank you - I wasn't sure how to interpret the manual. Here is the documentation from http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Character_sets.html to which I assume you are referring. "All standard MySQL binaries are compiled with --with-extra-charsets=complex. This will add code to all standard programs to be able to handle latin1 and all multi-byte character sets within the binary." I'll be sending you and Shashank Tripathi links to the problem pages and also the source content shortly. Anyone else interested in this thread should email me and I'll include them on the links. Again, thank you so much for your time and effort in responding to my post. Dawn Friedland [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
