Re: XML encoding variable simpleXML on Linux

It is not that I want to generate the document in UTF-8. I just need to specify the correct encoding. My assumption that it was UTF-8 based on what my command line settings are is obviously incorrect. How can I tell what php is encoding in by default? Larry On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:20 +0100, Bojan Tesanovic wrote: > encoding="UTF-8" doesn't guarantee that XML is encoded in UTF-8 its > only purpose is to tell XML parser how to decode that XML document . > it is responsibility of document creator to ensure that XML is proper > UTF-8 document . > > on PHP side when creating XML there are number of functions to ensure > UTF-8 strings though there are some issues in PHP5 , > and one of the main features of upcoming PHP6 is to address UTF-8 > Issues that current PHP has. > > some of UTF functions > > utf8_encode — Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 > string utf8_encode ( string $data ) > > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Larry Brown wrote: > > > I am using PHP on Linux to communicate with an XML peer. I pull and > > push documents from and to their server. On the console I use > > UTF-8 as > > far as I can tell. When I send these documents should my leading tag > > read: > > > > <?xml versionnn="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > > > or is the encoding done by PHP and how do I know what it is encoded > > to? > > > > TIA > > > > Larry > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > Bojan Tesanovic > http://www.classicio.com/ > http://www.real-estates-sale.com/ > > > -- Larry Brown <larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com>