PHP5 - MySQL 4 charset problem

[T. Jurczak]

Hello!

I have Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.5 and MySQL 4.1 running on Win XP (sp2). The charset I want to use in my application is ISO-8859-7 (greek). When I execute an "insert" or "select" query directly from the command line (mysql), data are displayed correctly. But when I try to insert a record or display data through PHP, characters are displayed like this: ??????
I have tried the following, without being able to solve the problem.

I have changed the default character set in php.ini to ISO-8859-7.
I have changed the character_set_connection, character_set_client and character_set_results to greek (in mysql). Database charset and collate are greek and greek_general_ci.

When I displayed charset with mysqli_character_set_name($link), I found out that charset is latin1_swedish_ci, although I have changed it (I have never used swedish)! Windows regional settings are ok. When I display the content of a file or a single string through php, greek characters are displayed correctly.

This problem never occured with previous versions of PHP and MySQL.

Any ideas?

Thank you. :)