Problem with special characters

Anyone having ide why special characters suddenly doesnt work on my apache (on win2k). I wont return letter like "'e" and swedish characters öåä from mssql 2000. It worked before but after i have unistalled zonealarm and run windows update, and installed win 2000 server client tool's php wont recognize those characters right. The characters im talking about is stored on a windows 2000 server (on win 2000), see function downbelow. Can the windows update change the unicode on the webserver? Here is a function that is used to store the special characters: function changeCharSweToDb($string){ $string = ereg_replace ("å", "†", $string); $string = ereg_replace ('ä', '„', $string); $string = ereg_replace ('ö', '”', $string); $string = ereg_replace ("Å", "", $string); $string = ereg_replace ("Ä", "Ž", $string); $string = ereg_replace ("Ö", "™", $string); $string = str_replace ('"', '"', $string); return $string; } Any ideas? /orjan _________________________________________________________________ Lättare att hitta drömresan med MSN Resor http://www.msn.se/resor/