Re: XML Encoding - with examples

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Thiago H. Pojda <thiago.pojda@gmail.com> > wrote: > <babling and code> > > -- > > Thiago Henrique Pojda > > > > Are you sure the accented characters you are using are part of > ISO-8859-1 and not UTF-8? I don't have your data set, but I ran your > code with a list of country names some of which include accented > characters. It worked fine if I set the XML document encoding to > UTF-8. (It even worked fine if I used the iconv line you have > commented out, but I'm any XML reader that tries to use the ISO-8859-1 > encoding to read the file will spit out the first character that > doesn't belong to the set.) > Try this word: descrição (description, in Portuguese). I couldn't get it to show correctly in Firefox and other browsers, even after sending the proper header. > > Is there any reason in particular that you MUST use ISO-8859-1 rather > than UTF-8? The former is a subset of the latter, so I would think > you'd save yourself the headache if you just used UTF-8 for > everything. > I need to see accented characters, I don't mind how it's going to work atm. I know UTF-8 is better, but ISO seem to suit my needs better. > > Andrew > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Thank you for your time, -- Thiago Henrique Pojda