bug ?

Hi all phper I'm using php4 and oracle8i database. my problem is when i insert data with different font like this : $sql = "insert into temp_news (news_id, news_name, body) values(313,'HELLO','<font face=VNI-Times>Yeâu e'm</font>')"; $stmt = ociparse($conn, $sql); it auto changed to other value !!! so the value when i query out is diffrence with original value, but this sql statement work well with perl and the second thing is when i try to print out the value of follwing variable $x55 = round(5.5); $x65 = round(6.5); I get the same value is 6 thanks for all reply m