Hi Gurus, I am using PHP 4.3.8 on Linux with Postgres 7.3.4. The problem is I am unable to insert some japanese datat in the database using PHP. I am sending you the character which gives problem, its "能". The problem arises when user enters only this characters and tries to save. If this character is in between a string then data gets inserted but, when I retrieve the data from database. The above given character is corrupted. Can anybody please help me this regard. Thanking you all in anticipation. Regards, Umesh. *********************** Umesh A. Deshmukh. manas solutions pvt. ltd. +91-20-4223991/2 ***********************