Thanks everyone for your help... I love this place

Special thanks to you moritz because that makes the most sense and actually what you showed as being the results of the different encodings is exactly what I get. (I see âè¦ in the database and when i tried converting it back I got the â... I'm impressed)

I'm working on a solution now... I think I have it set from here. Something along the lines of converting it from UTF-8 -> Latin 1 -> UTF-8. Interesting tidbit that might end up mattering... if I use a function to detect the encoding all of the offending material (crazy characters) is UTF-8 encoded and all the stuff thats just plain text is considered ASCII... but it all went through the same process... whats with that?

The language I'm using now (have to use it other than perl to do some things) has some nice functions for string character set encoding, but it seemed like i was getting nowhere. Now I know where I need to be going. Thanks again...

In reply to Re^2: A Character Set Enquiry by Godsrock37
in thread A Character Set Enquiry by Godsrock37

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