[TYPO3] insert and special characters

[Andrea Giorgini]

Andrea Giorgini wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am inserting data through:
> 
> $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_INSERTquery('table', $fields);
> 
> The problem are german umlaut and so on. Even using htmlentities are 
> inserted wrong strings... any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Andrea

Ok, sorry, guess more detail is important: I am reading line by line a 
file that I have to import into the db. And I am using the usual php 
functions, fopen, fgets... I guess I should use some t3 api...

Thx again

Andrea