Posted by eugenio on 07/11/06 13:25

Thanks for the reply....

I've tried utf-8 and ISO 8859-1 but I either get empty squares or
question marks.
The html source shows question marks as well. I'm guessing, but I think
the problem may be that the mssql module is not able to handle the
chars or something with the apache config. When I run the same script
on win2k3 server with php and iis6 the characters show without a
problem.

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> eugenio@iatmgu.com wrote:
> > Hi...not sure if this is the right group for this posting, but i'm
> > don't know where else to post. I've got a simple problem...I have a
> > linux box running apache 2.0 and php5. I'm trying to use the mssql
> > functions in php to retreive data from a mssql server 2k. I'm pulling
> > data from the customers table in the northwind db and i'm getting
> > strange characters instead of special characters. Below is a sample
> > output:
> >
> > (where the quotes are i get a question mark)
> > What I'm getting:
> >
> > ALFKI - Alfreds Futterkiste - Maria Anders
> > ANATR - Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados - Ana Trujillo
> > ANTON - Antonio Moreno Taquer?a - Antonio Moreno
> > AROUT - Around the Horn - Thomas Hardy
> > BERGS - Berglunds snabbk?p - Christina Berglund
> >
> >
> > What I should get:
> >
> > ALFKI - Alfreds Futterkiste - Maria Anders
> > ANATR - Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados - Ana Trujillo
> > ANTON - Antonio Moreno Taquería - Antonio Moreno
> > AROUT - Around the Horn - Thomas Hardy
> > BERGS - Berglunds snabbköp - Christina Berglund
> >
>
> What charset are you using for your page? And what does the page source
> show?
>
> Probably alt.html might have been a better group to start, but this one
> is a logical choice.
>
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