Question

I am having problems displaying text from a column in an MS Access 2007 table which is in Greek. I am using PHP and $dbc = @odbc_pconnect("Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};Dbq=$mdbFilename", $user, $pass); to read from a local .mdb file. I can successfully read the rest of the data in the DB which is in Latin characters. Greek characters get displayed as � when I echo the results. The html charset is properly set to utf-8. I’ve tried using utf8_encode with no luck. I’ve been searching the web for some time no but could not figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kyris

Answer 1

.mdb format, being a Microsoft’s invention does not use Unicode, but rather one of Windows- codepages. Check which one is that you use for Greek, and use iconv to translate between encodings.