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When using PHP for creating html documents intended to be read by a web browser there’s the possibility to set character encoding within the html-heading, getting a extra way to handla the character presentation of the content. However when running PHP code through the CLI-PHP software for internal, server-side purposes handling data the character encoding might require a little bit more work. Reading XML-documents using the PHP “xml_parser” and at the same time trusting the character encoding given in the XML-document header as shown below might not be enough in order to make sure you get the correct character encoding.

...xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ...

Be sure to set the encoding within the creation of the XML-parser.


$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();