Posting special characters with Get object

[Ham]

The information which is to be stored into database or retrieved from the database has to be handeled by the Get object in both direction any way. This is how Get Object enjoys! I think Jamie is the right person which could explain it better.

[Olivier]

After scouting the internet the whole day, I stumbled upon an article related to the encoding of the PHP file. Right from the beginning NotePad++ used ANSI encoding, I also tried UTF-8 (w/o BOM). No luck.

About this matter:
http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Garbled_data

[Olivier]

I was finally able to solve this problem! Before inserting the strings into the database, I do this charset conversion in the PHP script:

$string = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $string);

The thing is that I don't know why such a conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 (aka latin1) works.
No matter the charset of the MySQL database, the charset defined in the HTML embedding the .swf, nor the encoding used to save the PHP file. No need for MMF Unicode either.
Is this ISO-8859-1 defined by my browsers (worked okay with IE, FireFox and Chrome)? Or my OS?

EDIT: Does the Flash browser plugin forces a charset?

[Francois]

Embedding fonts only changes the way the fonts are displayed. Not how they are treated internally.
Glad to see you solved the problem.