Re: XML encoding variable simpleXML on Linux

Larry Brown wrote:

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

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simple xml uses the dom api [*i think*] - the dom api only works in utf-8 - thus your content should be utf-8 if it was created by php. really quick way to check is to stick a £ [GBP] sign in the xml, open it up in a browser, check the £ sign shows correctly and check the encoding settings [firefox: view> charector encoding]. quite sure you could also if($xml === utf8_encode(utf8_decode($xml))) { #its utf-8 }