What Charset Owns This Stubborn Character �

hi all, I have spent close to 4 hours on this '�'
i really need to know what charset owns it, maybe that will mark the beginning of it's end
the stubborn thing keep coming up in my application
thanks

you mean u cant see this characters i am seeing?

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character that looks like a square box standing on it's sharp edge, with a question mark in it?

i must be losing it!

the problem is during insertion into mysql DB, the DB table uses latin1_swedish_ci encoding and all i do is grab a newly arrived string coming via base64_encode/decode

say the data is "cool", i get this naughty character separate every character, to form something like c�o�o�l�

just before the database insertion, i echoed the string which gave me the correct "cool"
only to check my db to see the character litter everywhere.

somehow, this occurs only on fields with type varchar(), char text, these field has their individual charset set to latin1_swedish_ci
i try changing the column charsets but no luck

i think this is getting tougher than it should.

I noticed that the character only shows up within my app,  when i use firefox.
other browsers do just fine.

I was hoping that when i view this nairaland thread in other browsers, i wont see the character, but nah!
other browsers displays the character so making me think, i have just started.

one thing tells me it's a firefox issue, another tells me it's some kind of physics am yet to understand.
time is not my friend on this project.

i would have opted for the mysql repace() function but what character will i be replacing, my editors can't take the character without transforming it to question mark(?), this character is obviously not question mark.

In my own case, i did something that converts from excel csv directly into html and then stored the html into dbase.
From what you said, i will try out some combinations and hope to solve the problem

in what database  are u saving it in?