Re: Dealing with XML charsets

On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:33:35 -0700, clay@killersoft.com (Clay Loveless) wrote: > I haven't tried this myself yet, but will soon be facing a similar need. > > http://www.php.net/iconv > > That's probably the way I'll start off on tackling this problem ... Grab > your XML document, check to see if it's in windows-1252, and if it is, run > it through the iconv functions, then parse the XML data. Thanks. I tried this on my Windows development server and got absolutely no output from these functions, so gave up. Now i'm wondering whether it's just a Windows-only bug: I'll have to look and see if my web hosting has this installed as it would be a smart option if it did work. Using the unicode translation tables I built some kind of translation table which seemed to work, but it converted to utf-16 rather than utf-8, so everything showed as little squares rather than characters :-( Otherwise this would have worked nicely (contact me if you want more details). Thanks Peter