Re: Re: ampersand in dom with utf-8

jonathan wrote:

So I'm reading up on character encoding in XML documents as I think this is the problem (after the many helpful suggestions on this list). With regards to your second question; no, I'm not sure if I'm using proper utf-8 througout the entire process. When I input from the form I'm converting everything via htmlentities . This is why I'm getting è etc... (On a side note, is there a function or way to check to see if a form is using the native characters (from a copy and paste of a word document like è) or the HTML entity è .

If you're using the correct character set all the way through, you only need to do htmlspecialchars() to convert things like & and <, as all the other characters should already be present in the character set you are using (UTF-8). htmlentities() is mostly used for converting characters outside of your character set into entities.

I've changed the content-type from text/xml to application/xml but that doesn't seem to help. As only UTF-8 and UTF-16 have to be supported, I'm concerned whether the processor might think it is some other encoding. The HTTP headers are: Date => Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:49:02 GMT Server => Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.8 PHP/5.0.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a X-Powered-By => PHP/5.0.4 Cache-Control => no-cache Connection => close Content-Type => application/xml

header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');

I guess pursuant to cc's suggestion, I should do an html_entity_decode when I make the xml document and then do another htmlentities on the html representatoin.

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