Cannot display Greek characters .mdb file (PHP & ODBC)

Question

I am having problems displaying text from a column in an MS Access 2007 table which is in Greek. I am using PHP and $dbc = @odbc_pconnect(\"Driver={Microsoft Access Driver

Answer 1

As an exmple:

echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("Windows-1253", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT", $text);
echo 'IGNORE   : ', iconv("Windows-1253", "UTF-8//IGNORE", $text);
echo 'Plain    : ', iconv("Windows-1253", "UTF-8", $text);

Answer 2

.mdb format, being a Microsoft's invention does not use Unicode, but rather one of Windows- codepages. Check which one is that you use for Greek, and use iconv to translate between encodings.