PHP Special character Problem

[sujithfem]

Hi,
I have some problem while displaying the content with special characters like other language especially from Belgium Dutch characters, I meant the exact database table content [Belgium Dutch characters] not displayed in respective pages but only shows the other symbol like? [Question mark], please help me to avoid this problem, if anybody has some function please provide the same and advance thanks for your help
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[Nick Evan]

Can you give a piece of example code? I don't understand what the problem is. What special chars in Dutch/Belgium language are you talking about. I'm from the Netherlands and I don't know any 'special' characters :-O

[sujithfem]

Can you give a piece of example code? I don't understand what the problem is. What special chars in Dutch/Belgium language are you talking about. I'm from the Netherlands and I don't know any 'special' characters :-O

the special characte look like ................

œÏïÎîÔôËÊÉÈëêéèÀàçÍíóÓéèÉÈÚúáàÁÀãñÑÖöÜüßÉ

the above char is not display excatly only look like ? and etc

do you have any encoding function in PHP and Javascript ,if so please help me ,thank u

[Nick Evan]

What character-set is your database using? I'm using latin1 and I don't have the problem