Here is the script that is supposed to insert in a MS SQL Server database some data including special french characters:

<?
        // establish connection to database
	setlocale("LC_ALL","french"); 
	$li=mssql_connect("server", "user","password");
	$db=mssql_select_db('database',$li);
 
         // text to insert, written in french
	$test='voil? ?a c&#039;est la probl?me';
 
	$query="insert into toto values ('".$test."')";
	$rez = mssql_query("SET LANGUAGE french");
	$rez = mssql_query($query);

        // extract from db the data just inserted
	$query="SELECT test from toto";
	$qresp=mssql_query($query);
	$toto = mssql_fetch_array ($qresp);

        // display the result
	echo $toto[0]; 
	mssql_close($li);
?>

Here is what the database contains:
     voila ta c&#039;est la problFme

No french special characters at all.


Cris Badea
Web Developer
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