Characters in an uploaded text file being corrupted

Using the following bit of code, I am then saving the contents of an uploaded text file into a mysql database, but, the issue seems to be that immediately after retrieving the contents of the temporary path of the uploaded file, for example, things like ' characters are rendering as ? characters in the assigned variable..? //start of code segment if (isset($_FILES["filContent"])) { if ($_FILES["filContent"]["type"] == "text/plain") { $ltContents = file_get_contents($_FILES["filContent"]["tmp_name"]); } } //end of code segment I am guessing that it's either due to something to do with upload part of process - form tag is using post method, and has enctype set to multipart/form-data - or else, it might have something to do with the server handling character encoding or something..? This is currently being run/tested under WAMP, on a windows7 64 bit machine, FWIW. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'