Re: [PHP] Looking functions for deal with special characters

2003-03-29 Thread Miles Thompson
Just off the top of my head ... Install Spanish language suport on the Windows machine What CodePage are you using? Check the Microsoft KB. Thinking about it a bit more, a plain ascii file may not handle Spanish because (if I remember correctly) it's single byte and repres

[PHP] Looking functions for deal with special characters

2003-03-28 Thread ignacio . estrada
Hi, I am getting data from a database, containing special characteres (in spanish). After that, I want to write down this data to an ascii file (.csv). When this file is open with excel, the resulting data on cell (strings) does not keep the same special characteres instead of that appear strange

[PHP] : Looking functions for deal with special characters

2003-03-28 Thread ignacio . estrada
Hi, I am getting data from a database, containing special characteres (in spanish). After that, I want to write down this data to an ascii file (.cvs), but when that is done the resulting strings does not keep the same special characteres instead of that appear strange characters. Here I want to