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Posted by amygdala on 06/16/07 20:10
"Willem Bogaerts" <w.bogaerts@kratz.maardanzonderditstuk.nl> schreef in
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>> I'm trying to let PHP write a 'sitemap.xml' sitemap for Google and other
>> searchengines. It's working, except that the content in the XML file
>> doesn't
>> seem to be UTF8. (Which it should be, judging by the information given on
>> Google's webmaster helpcenter).
>
> How can you tell? YOU tell the system what encoding is used. The system
> rarely tells you, as bytes can be perfectly valid text in a lot of
> encodings and look very different in each of them.
Yes, you're right of course, what was I thinking.
> Even if the system tells you, it usually does so separately from the
> text itself. Which is obvious, because you need the encoding to be able
> to read the text! In webpages and e-mail, for example, headers are used
> to set the encoding of the data.
>
> I suggest you search the net for encodings and how to work with them.
> This is a good start:
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Great article. Thanks for the pointer.
> Good luck with the onions,
Hopefully that won't be necessary anymore.
Cheers.
> --
> Willem Bogaerts
>
> Application smith
> Kratz B.V.
> http://www.kratz.nl/
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