Posted by amygdala on 06/13/07 20:25

Hi,

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).

The way I test to see if the content is UTF8, is by opening the XML file in
notepad and choose 'save as...'. Normally the coding option should be set to
UTF8, but now it just shows ANSI.

This is what I have tried to write UTF8 content with:

file_put_contents( '.' . SITEMAP_FILE, utf8_encode(
$this->sitemapForCrawlers ) );
....and...
file_put_contents( '.' . SITEMAP_FILE, iconv( "ISO-8859-1", "UTF8",
$this->sitemapForCrawlers ) );

....where...
SITEMAP_FILE is the filename constant
....and...
$this->sitemapForCrawlers is the string with XML data

With the last attempt I even got an error saying:

Wrong charset, conversion from `ISO-8859-1' to `UTF8' is not allowed in...


Any adeas of how I can make this work?

Thanks for the input.

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