Aha! Now I understand what's going on. Thanks for the lucid explanation David!
I'll use EUC-JP for internal since that's what my pgsql wants its input to be in and I'll spit out SJIS to browsers since most of them support that automatically. Yippee, I'm on my to being a PHP programmer ... eventually ;) Jc -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php