Topic: Funny question marks in content.

[DarkPrince2005]

Greetings all

I'm using Joomla with the Joomfish component for the translations and returning some of the translations using a custom php script.
the site displays correctly but what I'm retreavingand displaying as weirdd question marks in it.

I know it's to do with the charset but how can I alter the retrieved charset without actually altering anything in the database content or structure.

I tried

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mysql_set_charset($link,utf8) but it seemed to alter and change the database.

any suggestions?

[Rustywolf]

is it a black diamond with a question mark?
its added when a script tries to add an invalid character.
if it happens all the time, id suggest
$value = substr($value, 0, -1)
 to remove the last character

[DarkPrince2005]

Yes it's a black diamond with a question mark.

Could you please explain a bit more what exactly your suggested script does.

[Rustywolf]

It cuts the last digit off a string.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[DarkPrince2005]

The problem is that I actually need to display the characters.