I've got the folowing xml string in php:
$str="<name>An☢maly</name>";
I then do the following:
$tmp=new SimpleXMLElement($str);
if I do:
echo $tmp->name;
I get this:
An☢maly
When I do:
echo utf8_decode($tmp->name);
I get:
An?maly
How do I get PHP to display that funny character, it also does it with the following:
ƎnƔy™ = ?n?y?
Try use
header('Content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8');
before output (if you use browser)
P.S: An☢maly - this is output when browser render page in "ISO-8859-1" charset instead "UTF-8"
That's strange, I'm doing the exact same thing and it is displaying properly in web browser:
<?php
$str="<xml><name>ƎnƔy™</name></xml>";
$tmp=new SimpleXMLElement($str);
echo $tmp->name;
?>
I noticed that it didn't work properly unless I saved the source file as a UTF8 encoded file. I'm using Programmer's Notepad and clicked file > properties and changed the 'Encoding' parameter to UTF-8 to achieve this.
Also, UTF8 characters will not print correctly on windows command line, which may also be your problem.
