Question

Im using PHP 5.3 on a linux server and I m trying to query a MS SQL Server 2005 database

i ve connected using PDO DBLIB and i can select just fine.
But when i try to enter greek characters in my query, for example:
where title='χψζ' the query() returns false , which means it didnt find any rows.

it must be that χψζ is sent to the server in a non ‘matching’ way, what do i do?

Answer 1

ok i found it, i saw it returns on the browser, text encoded as Windows-1253, i thought i have to convert my query to Windows-1253.

using $query=iconv( 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1253', $query );

it can now compare χψζ with the one stored in the database.