Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 11/08/07 07:10

On Nov 8, 7:02 am, Toine <bapo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My problem:
> I'm using PHP to dynamically create an XML document. However, some of
> my data (from MySQL) contains non-UTF characters such as the umlaut.
> Naturally, browsers like IE 7 throw an error when attempting to parse
> these characters. I understand that these characters are invalid for
> XML.
>
> My question:
> What is the best to handle these characters when creating XML
> documents on the fly? It seems like searching and replacing these
> characters would be complicated, and there must be an easier way.
>
> Thanks!

Actually Umlauts are in UTF-8. But you should tell your browser which
character set you are using.
You could do that in the xml header, e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

or set it in the header using php, e.g.
header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

which is basically the same as the meta tag
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">

or let .htaccess do the job, e.g.
AddCharset utf-8 .css .html .xhtml .xml .php

good luck
Martin


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