Doc #51279 [NEW]: Documentation is weak at "DOMDocument uses UTF-8"

From: Operating system: PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Documentation is weak at "DOMDocument uses UTF-8" Description: ------------ After using the DOM-Objects (e. g. DOMDocument, DOMNode, ...) for parsing a XML file I got angry, because the source file was iso-8895-1 (and both the DOMDocument->xmlEncoding and DOMDocument->encoding told me "iso-8895-1") but the output was utf-8. After some minutes I expected that on the Introduction page of DOM the following note is written: "DOM extension uses UTF-8 encoding. Use utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() to work with texts in ISO-8859-1 encoding or Iconv for other encodings" Well this node is missing on the pages where the content access is described. E. g. DOMNode->textContent, DOMNode->nodeValue, DOMElement->GetAttribute, and so forth. I personally whould like to have an implemented auto-change-encoding to whatever-you-want, but this is not part of the DOM specification. :( -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51279&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51279&r=mysqlcfg