php, OCI and datatypes

Hi, I'm working with Oracle 8.05 and php4.04xx. I'm selecting some datas in order to show them in a browser (Netscape 4.03Fr or IE5.0). I found out that my code works well with all datatypes but CHAR. Varchar2, date or numbers are retrieved and rendered in an array without any problems. With a char column, I can't see any values with Netscape and with IE, I have less than half of the string or nothing. Example : select char_column, other_column from my_table; // the query, char_column as a char(5) not null The output with OCIFetchStatement or OCIFetchInto or else is made with something like <TD>$data[$i]</TD>. The char column is filled with a blank space on the first row. On the second row, the char column is filled with a blank space between half of the initial string. and so on... Example : for "Hello" in the table, I get " H e l".(with IE, with Netscape I get nothing at all). So, any ideas ? Emmanuel Nectoux