MySQL update error when special characters are used

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Published on 2008-10-24T11:31:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 8:00 UTC
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Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone had come across this one before. I have a customer who uses special characters in their product description field. Updating to a MySQL database works fine if we use their HTML equivalents but it fails if the character itself is used (copied from either character map or Word I would assume).

Has anyone seen this behaviour before? The character in question in this case is ø - and we can't seem to do a replace on it (in ASP at least) as the character comes though to the SQL string as a "?".

Any suggestions much appreciated - thanks!

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