curl and UTF-8, follow up

I did some further testing, and i found that this behaviour is not consistent. Actually i am pretty puzzled about this. When i wrote the message below is was testing with a xml document that contained only the following multi byte utf chacracter: \303\253 (octal utf8) (LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS) The output from CURL got automatically decoded to latin1. Then after i wrote the message i tested with another xml document that contained the following multi byte utf character: \342\202\254 (octal utf8) (EURO SIGN) I was suprised to see that the output was now correct UTF-8. Now i modified the first document and inserted the EURO SIGN in this document. When i process this document again, the CURL output is UTF-8. So it seems the output of CURL depends on what it detects on its imput, and it will try to convert the data to latin1 if possible?? Does anyone know how i can disable this behaviour? For me, CURL should not do any encoding of my data. Greetings, Merijn van den Kroonenberg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Merijn van den Kroonenberg" <merijnspam@e-factory.nl> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 2:36 PM Subject: [PHP] curl and UTF-8 > Hello List, > > I have a problem with the php CURL module and UTF-8 data. > My php script uses curl to do a post to a perl/cgi script. This perl script > returns UTF-8 encoded XML. The perl script returns utf-8, i have verified > that using the webserver logfiles, but the data that i receive in $result > (see below) is decoded to ISO-8859-1. > > $ch = curl_init(); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $post_url); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields); > $result = curl_exec ($ch);// #### UTF compatible? > curl_close ($ch); > > Anyone an idea how i can get curl to return me UTF-8 data? > > Thank you, > > Merijn van den Kroonenberg > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >