RE: [PHP-WIN] mssql and latin characters

Hello Frank, I fix the problem doing exactly what you tell me to do, after days of headaches and testing with all kind of stuff. Huge Thanks. Regards Leticia Larrosa PD: You can't image how big the help you give me was. -----Original Message----- From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:25 PM To: Leticia Larrosa Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] mssql and latin characters Hi Leticia, MS SQL server comes with a set of client tools that allows you to specify the encoding. There is a checkbox in the Client Network Tool that allows you to enable/disable OEM character conversion. Flipping that for the alias you are using to connect to the database should fix the problem. Remember this must be done on the box where PHP is running if that's different from the SQL server box. - Frank > Hello > > I have a MSSql 2000 database that have stored data with the follow special > characters: ó, í, Ñ, á, é, ú. > When I see the data through any MsSql Client I see exactly those characters. > > The Collation of database is: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS > I can’t change the method of insert data in database. > > When I get (with MSSQL PHP extension) data that have some of those > characters, I get weird characters instead. > > For example: > A data that in database appears as “Girón” is obtained by PHP as “Gir¢n” > > The problem with the encoding of browser is discarded, because wherever I > saw the data appears with weird characters. > > The code I use to get the data is: > <?php > mssql_connect('server','user','pass'); > mssql_select_db('db'); > > $r = mssql_query(“select some_column from some_table”); > $d = mssql_fetch_assoc($r); > > echo $d['some_column']; > ?> > > My PHP is 4.4.3, and my OS is XP. > > Other people ask the same as I’m and get no answer proper are: > http://www.psicofxp.com/forums/desarrollo-web.264/226703-php-mssql-y-acentos > .html > http://www.bdat.net/cuestiones_php/php3/0702.html > http://www.forosdelweb.com/f18/problemas-con-caracteres-especiales-acentos-p > hp-mssql-server-364345/ > http://markmail.org/message/7rksvz44sj2te5sl > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/archive/index.php/t-10208269.html > > > Thanks in advanced. > Leticia Larrosa > > > > __________________________________________ > > Participe en Universidad 2008. > 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. > Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba > http://www.universidad2008.cu > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > __________ NOD32 2808 (20080120) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________________________________________ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2008.cu