jonathan wrote:
So I'm reading up on character encoding in XML documents as I think
this is the problem (after the many helpful suggestions on this list).
With regards to your second question; no, I'm not sure if I'm using
proper utf-8 througout the entire process. When I input from the form
I'm converting everything via htmlentities . This is why I'm getting
è etc... (On a side note, is there a function or way to check to
see if a form is using the native characters (from a copy and paste of
a word document like è) or the HTML entity è .
If you're using the correct character set all the way through, you only
need to do htmlspecialchars() to convert things like & and <, as
all the other characters should already be present in the character set
you are using (UTF-8). htmlentities() is mostly used for converting
characters outside of your character set into entities.
I've changed the content-type from text/xml to application/xml but that
doesn't seem to help.
As only UTF-8 and UTF-16 have to be supported, I'm concerned whether
the processor might think it is some other encoding.
The HTTP headers are:
Date => Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:49:02 GMT
Server => Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.8 PHP/5.0.4
mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4
FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
X-Powered-By => PHP/5.0.4
Cache-Control => no-cache
Connection => close
Content-Type => application/xml
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
I guess pursuant to cc's suggestion, I should do an html_entity_decode
when I make the xml document and then do another htmlentities on the
html representatoin.
Shouldn't be any need. Characters like è don't have any special meaning
in XML, and they can be represented in the UTF-8 character set, so
there's no need to convert them to entities at any stage.
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