you may didn't use the same chars due to your news client encoding conversion. try to iconv chr(224);
-- Moshe. "Jakub Vrana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] moshe doron wrote: > sorry, wrong target. > anyway on win32, with php5.0.0 the function return empty string while on > php4 it return notice. the iconv("WINDOWS-1255", "UTF-8"... which is what > libxml suppse to do is working nice on win32 php. > we still trying to figure out what going here. >> echo iconv("WINDOWS-1255", "ISO-8859-1", "raaa"); It behaves the same in PHP 5.0.0 and PHP 4.3.8 on my box (Windows XP). Notice is issued and illegal characters are not translated. Jakub Vrana