Michael Shadle wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The problem is that validating xhtml does not necessarily render properly in >> some browsers *cough*IE*cough* > > I've never had problems and my work is primarily around IE6 / our > corporate standards. Hell, even without a script type it still works > :) > >> Would this function work for sending html and solve the utf8 problem? >> >> function makeHTML($document) { >> $buffer = $document->saveHTML(); >> $output = html_entity_decode($buffer,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8"); >> return $output; >> } >> >> I'll try it and see what it does. > > this was the only workaround I received for the moment, and I was a > bit afraid it would not process the full range of utf-8; it appeared > on a quick check to work but I wanted to run it on our entire database > and then ask the native geo folks to examine it for correctness. I find that IE7 (at least) is pretty reliable as long as I use strict XHTML and send a DOCTYPE header to that effect at the top - that seems to trigger a standard-compliant mode in IE7. At least then I only have to worry about the JavaScript incompatibilities, and the table model, and the event model, and .... -- Peter Ford phone: 01580 893333 Developer fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php