Re: [PHP-I18N] utf-8 characters delivered as question marks involuntary

> > > Do you think i should try
> > > to read from a
> > > better sector?
> > 
> > Unless you think the hardware is particularly old and
> > suspect (e.g.
> > unstable on all applications) I think the chance of it
> > being a software
> > bug or configuration issue is 99%.
> > 
> > Darren
> > 
> 
> What i'm doing now is reading the file in a bad sector
> with the function file_get_contents() and sending it to the
> screen. It does not fail from the file_get_contents() side
> when it does fail from the php.exe side.
> 
> Nash
> 

moved to a different virtual server with a different executable version, same hard drive phpinfo() now clearly states Multibyte Support enabled
no optimization engine here

lets wait untill the question marks start getting into databases

Nash