Handling non-English letters in PHP

[Phil Powell]

I need to store data into XML that, often enough, is not in English. How
have you guys dealt with characters not found in the English language like ä
or é or å? I have to store them as "å" in my XML file, however,
whenever I am doing evaluation somehow the "å" gets converted literally
to "å" and when that displays in HTML it chokes, puts garbage BACK into the
XML file and it deteriorates further.

How can I ensure that when going back and forth between HTML, PHP and XML
that "å" REMAINS "å" AS IS???

Thanx
Phil

[Leslie Hoare]

Re: Handling non-English letters in PHP


"Phil Powell" <soazine@erols. com> wrote in message
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> I need to store data into XML that, often enough, is not in English. How
> have you guys dealt with characters not found in the English language like[/color]
ä[color=blue]
> or é or å? I have to store them as "&#229;" in my XML file, however,
> whenever I am doing evaluation somehow the "&#229;" gets converted[/color]
literally[color=blue]
> to "å" and when that displays in HTML it chokes, puts garbage BACK into[/color]
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> XML file and it deteriorates further.
>
> How can I ensure that when going back and forth between HTML, PHP and XML
> that "&#229;" REMAINS "&#229;" AS IS???
>
> Thanx
> Phil
>[/color]

Try encoding it as UTF-8 instead of converting to entities.


Leslie

[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

Re: Handling non-English letters in PHP

"Phil Powell" <soazine@erols. com> wrote
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>
> I need to store data into XML that, often enough, is not in English.
> How have you guys dealt with characters not found in the English
> language like ä or é or å?[/color]

The XML specification says,

Each external parsed entity in an XML document may use a different
encoding for its characters. All XML processors must be able to read
entities in both the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charencoding

which I take to mean that if you want to store non-Latin characters,
your best bet is to do it in UTF-16 encoding...

Cheers,
NC