Encoding problem

[imoschak]

Hi there i have a problem while parsing and xml file.
The file is a backup from moodle (moodle.xml). When i open the file
with one of my editors
and setting Encoding to utf8 font courier standard or greek characters
the editor can see all greek strings contained within the file
perfectly. On the other hand when i try to open it with php
parse it and then display it on a web page the data from the file come
out like latin characters like (A~ atilde)(o: o umplaud) and others
like this. Updating moodle is not an option so i have to find a
workaround. Has anybody heard of something like this? thanks in advance

[Juliette]

Re: Encoding problem

imoschak wrote:

Hi there i have a problem while parsing and xml file.
The file is a backup from moodle (moodle.xml). When i open the file
with one of my editors
and setting Encoding to utf8 font courier standard or greek characters
the editor can see all greek strings contained within the file
perfectly. On the other hand when i try to open it with php
parse it and then display it on a web page the data from the file come
out like latin characters like (A~ atilde)(o: o umplaud) and others
like this. Updating moodle is not an option so i have to find a
workaround. Has anybody heard of something like this? thanks in advance
>

The encoding which is send in the headers is probably latin which would
cause the faulty display.
Have a look at moodle to see if you can set the page encoding in the
configuration or something.

[imoschak]

Re: Encoding problem


Juliette wrote:

imoschak wrote:

Hi there i have a problem while parsing and xml file.
The file is a backup from moodle (moodle.xml). When i open the file
with one of my editors
and setting Encoding to utf8 font courier standard or greek characters
the editor can see all greek strings contained within the file
perfectly. On the other hand when i try to open it with php
parse it and then display it on a web page the data from the file come
out like latin characters like (A~ atilde)(o: o umplaud) and others
like this. Updating moodle is not an option so i have to find a
workaround. Has anybody heard of something like this? thanks in advance

>
The encoding which is send in the headers is probably latin which would
cause the faulty display.
Have a look at moodle to see if you can set the page encoding in the
configuration or something.

The encoding in the meta tags is set to utf-8 plus the data from the
xml file is printed out by a page that i created not by moodle. And in
the editor if i set the font to courier ANSI characters the editor
prints out exactly the same latin characters as the broswer (sorry i
forgot this:-)

[Juliette]

Re: Encoding problem

imoschak wrote:

Juliette wrote:

>imoschak wrote:

>>Hi there i have a problem while parsing and xml file.
>>The file is a backup from moodle (moodle.xml). When i open the file
>>with one of my editors
>>and setting Encoding to utf8 font courier standard or greek characters
>>the editor can see all greek strings contained within the file
>>perfectly. On the other hand when i try to open it with php
>>parse it and then display it on a web page the data from the file come
>>out like latin characters like (A~ atilde)(o: o umplaud) and others
>>like this. Updating moodle is not an option so i have to find a
>>workaround. Has anybody heard of something like this? thanks in advance
>>>

>The encoding which is send in the headers is probably latin which would
>cause the faulty display.
>Have a look at moodle to see if you can set the page encoding in the
>configuratio n or something.

>
The encoding in the meta tags is set to utf-8 plus the data from the
xml file is printed out by a page that i created not by moodle. And in
the editor if i set the font to courier ANSI characters the editor
prints out exactly the same latin characters as the broswer (sorry i
forgot this:-)
>

Meta tag setting is not the important one, the important one is the
header you send.

In php that would be:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );

[Rik]

Re: Encoding problem

Juliette wrote:

imoschak wrote:

>Juliette wrote:

>>imoschak wrote:
>>>Hi there i have a problem while parsing and xml file.
>>>The file is a backup from moodle (moodle.xml). When i open the file
>>>with one of my editors
>>>and setting Encoding to utf8 font courier standard or greek
>>>characters the editor can see all greek strings contained within
>>>the file perfectly. On the other hand when i try to open it with
>>>php
>>>parse it and then display it on a web page the data from the file
>>>come out like latin characters like (A~ atilde)(o: o umplaud) and
>>>others like this. Updating moodle is not an option so i have to
>>>find a workaround. Has anybody heard of something like this?
>>>thanks in advance
>>>>
>>The encoding which is send in the headers is probably latin which
>>would cause the faulty display.
>>Have a look at moodle to see if you can set the page encoding in the
>>configurati on or something.

>>
>The encoding in the meta tags is set to utf-8 plus the data from the
>xml file is printed out by a page that i created not by moodle. And
>in the editor if i set the font to courier ANSI characters the editor
>prints out exactly the same latin characters as the broswer (sorry i
>forgot this:-)
>>

>
Meta tag setting is not the important one, the important one is the
header you send.
>
In php that would be:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );

Yup, that was pointed out to me recently. And very logical too: as soon as a
program 'reads' the meta-tag, it has already chosen a charset and any hint
what it should be in the authors opinion in the meta tag is too late.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus