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Posted by Rik on 12/05/97 11:52
Juliette wrote:
> imoschak wrote:
>> Juliette wrote:
>>> imoschak wrote:
>>>> Hi there i have a problem while parsing and xml file.
>>>> The file is a backup from moodle (moodle.xml). When i open the file
>>>> with one of my editors
>>>> and setting Encoding to utf8 font courier standard or greek
>>>> characters the editor can see all greek strings contained within
>>>> the file perfectly. On the other hand when i try to open it with
>>>> php
>>>> parse it and then display it on a web page the data from the file
>>>> come out like latin characters like (A~ atilde)(o: o umplaud) and
>>>> others like this. Updating moodle is not an option so i have to
>>>> find a workaround. Has anybody heard of something like this?
>>>> thanks in advance
>>>>
>>> The encoding which is send in the headers is probably latin which
>>> would cause the faulty display.
>>> Have a look at moodle to see if you can set the page encoding in the
>>> configuration or something.
>>
>> The encoding in the meta tags is set to utf-8 plus the data from the
>> xml file is printed out by a page that i created not by moodle. And
>> in the editor if i set the font to courier ANSI characters the editor
>> prints out exactly the same latin characters as the broswer (sorry i
>> forgot this:-)
>>
>
> Meta tag setting is not the important one, the important one is the
> header you send.
>
> In php that would be:
> header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
Yup, that was pointed out to me recently. And very logical too: as soon as a
program 'reads' the meta-tag, it has already chosen a charset and any hint
what it should be in the authors opinion in the meta tag is too late.
Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus
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