Fractions showing as letters (?!)

[RickChase]

This was originally an osCommerce question, but it is a php/mysql thing...

In the database we have fractions such as 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4. The descriptions have been copy and pasted from Word and therefore are they are in the database as ¼, ½, or ¾.

When they display on the page, however, they show as "S", "s", and "j".

Any idea on what's happening here? Never seen this one before.

Thanks,
Rick

[leatherback]

Sounds to me like some sort opf character conversion. THat word uses a different (wider) ASCII characterset then mysql. Don't know how to solve it though. SOrry.

[drew010]

that or the represantation of the symbols from one character set font used in word represents something else in the default browser font your website is being viewed in.