Hello, I been learning PHP from a Wrox book called beginning PHP 4. There was an xml parser, I typed out the code and it worked ok. I than installed german version of windows on my PC, PHP Apache etc. and now it doesn't work. It has problems when tags or text contained with in the tags has german characters, umlaut. Is there a problem with german chracters? If I take them out everything works. Why does it work on my old english XP but not now I'm using german version of xp?