PHP + SQL Server - How to set charset for connection?

Question

I\'m trying to store some data in a SQL Server database through php.

Problem is that special chars aren\'t converted properly. My app\'s charset is iso-8859-1 and th

Answer 1

Can't you just convert your tables to your application encoding? Or use utf-8 in both?

I don't know whether MSSQL supports table-level encodings, though.

Also, try the MB (multibyte) string functions, if the above fails.