>There's a few issues here that are colliding. >First of all, you're returning HTML entities in an XML document. >That's going to throw an error. In your example, you have à , >which isn't defined for XML, only for HTML.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references >Secondly, you're getting your character encodings in a muddle. The >database is storing your e-acute in UTF8. It's unicode character >U+0039, and represented in the UTF-8 encoding as two bytes (C3 and >E9). >http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/e9/index.htm <- look at >the UTF-8 (hex) section >I don't understand why you're trying to force the UTF-8 characters >into an ISO-8859-1 encoding - which has barely enough code points to >cover Western European languages, never mind Greek, Russian or any >other OSM data. Stick to UTF-8 encoding in your XML, and you should be >fine. Provided, of course, you can persuade PHP that's it's an XML >rather than an HTML document, to sort out the entity encoding as I >explained above. Hello Andy, OK thanks for that. That's the problem with speaking English as a first language and only working with a UK subset of OSM data... you can go for years and years developing software before hitting these issues! Nick
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