mbstring is working well for me as well as many others. Automatic encoding detection is not perfect since one encoding is smilar to another. If things are setting up right, all you need to do is adding dummy input. Add something like
<input type="hidden" name="dummy" value="日本語自動認識用ダミー文字列"> in your form. Then it may work as you want. -- Yasuo Ohgaki -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php