Oracle/PHP unable to read VARCHAR2 from result buffer

Hi out there, I use OCI-calls from PHP 3.0.12 with Oracle 8.0.5. Everything works fine (logon, select, ...) but it seems that I get UniCode-VARCHAR2 back from my result buffer which I'm not able to use directly. strlen(OCIResult($qstr, "surname")); --- shows double (!!!) the size of the containing string print "surname: " . OCIResult($qstr, "surname") --- doesn't print out anything When I copy OCIResult($qstr, "surname") to a string variable and access stringvar[1], ..[3], ... and so on I get my chars one after another, [0], [2], and so on are "0" (e.g. "PETER" is "\0P\0E\0T\0E\0R"). Numbers work fine!!! I expect NLS, UniCode ore any other Environmentals to be the problem. Does anybody have an concrete solution on that... Thanks for any help. Peter -- _______________________________________________________________________ mailto:Peter.Schupp@object-it.de Privat: STZ object-IT Tel. 0711 18 39 78 6 | Kirchheimer Str. 18 Postfach 10 43 62 Fax 0711 18 39 68 7 | 73760 Ostfildern-Ruit D-70038 Stuttgart D2 0172 9 06 71 62 | Tel 0711 44 16 06 5 PGP Key available at: http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net _______________________________________________________________________