Bug #17792: DOMXML outputs  character before £ - encoding??

From: douglas_devine@yahoo.com Operating system: Redhat 7.1 PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: DOM XML related Bug description: DOMXML outputs  character before £ - encoding?? I have a web page with a form. I want the user to be able to use the £ symbol in a text field on the form. I then pass the value of the text field(the £ symbol) to a DOMXML function which creates a XML string which is transformed into XHTML using the XSLT functions. I have a meta tag defining the encoding of the web page as UTF-8. (So the £ symbol is being passed into the DOMXML function in this format? I echo it out just before doing this and it displays correctly.) the DOMXML functions use UTF-8 for input and output? When I echo the XML output before passing it to the XSLT functions, I see that it has placed a  symbol immediately before the £ symbol. Seems like there might be an encoding problem? Using Sablotron-0.90, Expat-1.95.3 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17792&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17792&r=globals