note 90013 added to function.wddx-deserialize

In PHP 5.2.9, we noticed that wddx serialize and deserialize seems to use UTF-8 encoding for XML input and the output data. There are some posts below that talk about fixing the input XML data so deserialize would work fine on special chars in ISO-8859-1 encoding, but none of the posts talks about the output encoding. Consider this test: $text = "Jür"; $packet = wddx_serialize_value($text); $header = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>'; $newText = wddx_deserialize($header . $packet); echo "WDDX Packet: $packet\n"; echo "Deserialized Object: $newText\n"; The output is: WDDX Packet: <wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><string>Jür</string></data></wddxPacket> Deserialized Object: Jür The deserialized string is not in ISO-8859-1 encoding. It is in UTF-8 encoding. So we need to run utf8_decode() on the deserialized data to convert it back to ISO-8859-1 encoding which is what our application expects. Hope this helps. ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 216.132.93.103 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.wddx-deserialize.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90013 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90013 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90013 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php