Setting the color for an ASCII char

[ThunderAI]

I have the following code:

 

$str 		= ($stringcontents[$step+38]);
$str1	= ord($str);
$bgcolor	= convertchar($str1);
?>
<td bgcolor='<?php echo $bgcolor;?>'>
<span title='<?php echo $fieldname;?>' style='color: <?php echo $fgcolor;?>; font-size: 12pt'><font color="<?php echo $fgcolor;?>"><?php echo $stringcontents[$step];?></font></span>				

 

the convertchar function takes the ord value of the ASCII chr and sets a variable for bgcolor and fgcolor using HTML color codes.  The background sets correctly, but the foreground ASCII chr is always black and does not use the font color code.

 

What do I need to do to get the ASCII chr to change to a color other than black?

 

 

Added:

I am using a default charset:

 

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=IBM437">

[.josh]

So where in your code do you actually assign a value to $fgcolor? did you look at your output source and see what is actually being output?