Re: Get € past a XML parser

From: Rutger Claes (news_at_rgc.be)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:50:29 +0100

Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> on 01/07/2005 11:05 AM Rutger Claes said the following:
>> I'm having troubles getting the euro sign through an XML parser.
>>
>> With the following test code:
>> <?php
>> $string = "<root><test>&#8364;</test></root>";
>
> You need to explicitly declare that the output encoding is UTF-8 because
> ISO-8859-1 only comprises 8 bit latin characters. Iso-8859-15 would be
> the correct encoding but I don't think Expat supports any encoding
> besides UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1.
>

You're right. When I enforce UTF-8 on my xml from the time it get's out of
the DOM Object through the SAX parser and Tidy I get some wrong symbols:
â,¬. But when I tell my browser (Konqueror) to use charset UTF-8, it works.

The problem now is that even though I have a
<meta .... content-type: text/hml; charset=UTF-8" /> and a headers( '...
charset=UTF-8' ) the browser still doesn't pick it up when it is set to
auto charset. I've tried mozilla firefox too, same result.

So now I have a working charset, but nobody will see it. Is there a way to
fix this?

 Thanks for the answer,
 Rutger Claes 

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