... > 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.
Well, actually, the one-byte backslash and tilde you can leave alone. They survive intact, they just display differently over here. Everybody's used to it, so no problem. Even programming in C, when we write something like '\t', the backslash (0x5c) shows up in our editors as the yen symbol, and we pretend that the escape character is the yen symbol, because, for us, when the encoding is shift-JIS, it is. So don't worry about the one-byte characters. ... I checked the text you gave me, and I found what's getting clobbered. It's the latter half of characters like the katakana 'so'. Although the byte that is getting walked on here is 0x5c, this is _not_ the escape character. It is preceded (in the case of katakana 'so') by a byte of 0x83. The entire character is '0x835c', and the 0x5c is being treated as if it were a backslash. There are other characters that will get hit by this, by the way. Bells ringing all over in my head. I think your content tool is mishandling backslashes, but it could be that MySQL or the driver is doing something the tool doesn't expect. (Well, really, the tool is probably mis-handling the backslashes.) This is actually independent of the language issues. I'm pretty sure I've seen this subject come up before on the list, just can't remember which way the turkey rolled. But your content tool will need to do something slightly different with the input. Could you search the archives about escape sequences or the backslash character? (Maybe someone who remembers could chime in here?) -- Joel Rees <[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
