The COM object and character encoding

[shmoyko]

I have the joy of trying to create a MS Word document in German using PHP.

 

I fistly make an instance of the COM object:

 

$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate word");

 

... ($doc defined here, etc.)

 

Then, I set up "bookmarks":

$tempBookmark = $doc->Bookmarks('INTRO');

$tempRange    = $tempBookmark->Range;

$contentRange->FormattedText = $tempRange;

$contentRange->Find->Execute('{Something}', 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, $something, 2);

 

The above is just a sample.

 

The problem is this:

I use the mb_convert_encoding function to convert text from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.

Works fine, except when the text is in a table (within Word). Some German characters are not displayed or they're converted to 'English' equivalents.

 

Any idea why this is happening? Why are tables in Word special?

 

Many thanks.