note 24741 added to function.utf8-encode

For XML generation, if you want non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 characters within text and attributes, you don't absolutely need UTF-8 encoding: The optional XML declaration can change the default encoding for characters from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> This can save a lot of PHP code if you just want to generate ISO-8859-1 text and attribute values... XML specification requires that all parsers support both the UTF-8 encoding (by default), and the ISO-8859-1 character set. Other character sets may be supported also by specifying them in the encoding attribute of the leading XML declaration (but the target parser must support this character set to allow automatic conversion of the source text into Unicode character entities. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24741 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24741 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24741