Cannot retrieve data in utf-8 from php

Hi.

I have a IIS server with php3 installed. I have SQL server database
and data stored in unicode format (nvarchar fields). In header of my
php I have the meta: <meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-type"
CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">.

I have the following problem:

- I trie to do a query using ODBC (version 3.525.1022.0) and SQL
Server odbc driver (version 200.85.1022.00). The query doesn't
retrieve information in utf format and accents and extra characters
aren't showed correctly.

- I trie to di the query usin native OLE DB. I use mssql funtions and
the problem is the same.

If I install php4 and I use "new
COM("ADODB.Connection",NULL,CP_UTF8);", then it works correctly.

Anybody knows if its posible to retrieve data from sql-server in utf-8
format using php3?

I see in other postings that odbc driver only accept utf-8 in version
3.7 or higher? Is it true? If is true, where I can download odbc
driver 3.7?

Thank's in advance.
Miki.Miki (miquelpl2@.hotmail.com) writes:
> I see in other postings that odbc driver only accept utf-8 in version
> 3.7 or higher? Is it true? If is true, where I can download odbc
> driver 3.7?

First, as far as I know, the ODBC driver for SQL Server does not handle
UTF-8 at all, since SQL Server does not support UTF-8, but stores
all Unicode data as UCS-2. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=232580.

ODBC is part of the MDAC, and with any recently new Windows machine,
you have an MDAC version which includes ODBC 3.7 or later. If you have
some old NT4 platform, you may have to look for something news.

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...?displaylang=en,
and pick MDAC. You will have to check the versions that they support
your OS.

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