Hi Chris, Yes, I was using htmlentities, I have now removed that and now
'De l'Âge du fer au haut Moyen Âge.' gets inserted into oracle as 'De l'Bge du fer au haut Moyen Bge.' Any ideas? David -----Original Message----- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 November 2006 21:17 To: David Skyers Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character David Skyers wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Thanks for this, it got rid of my special characters. However I now have a > problem with foreign characters. > > Example > > 'De l'Âge du fer au haut Moyen Âge.' > > gets inserted into oracle as > > De l'Âge du fer au haut Moyen Âge. > > I have an oracle procedure that inserts the data, if I run the oracle > procedure directly in oracle it inserts the special characters okay. The > problem seems to be with the way php execute the procedure. Are you calling htmlentities or htmlspecialchars before calling the procedure? That looks like what's happening. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
