Well, I'm still waiting for replies from the "other" groups I posted
to but in the meantime, by trial and error I found a solution. For
all those Google Maps API users who are also using XML docs from a
MySql database, here's what fixed the problem for me:
Add
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
right before the query in the php file. After that, all was golden.
I greatly appreciate the help of so many posters here on this forum.
Sorry that this is somewhat off topic but I hope it still helps people
out! It certainly brightened my day to see the Japanese text
appearing. I suspect it will also work for other utf8 encoded data as
well.
(A caution: the "utf8_encode" actually made it garbled again. It's
not needed if the text in the database is utf8 to begin with!)
On Aug 31, 2:15 pm, onsenjapan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll try that. If anyone has suggestions I'd still welcome them.
>
> On Aug 31, 1:55 pm, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 31, 7:43 pm, onsenjapan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > PHP users group, and no doubt there'd be plenty of people there to
> > > jump in with a "Why not ask on the Google Maps API forum?"
>
> > No way, why?
> > Just show themy our PHP and the XML that comes out of it. You don't
> > even need to mention Google Maps because it is not part of the
> > equation.
>
> > > The bottom line is that I'm posting here because I've received some
> > > extremely helpful responses to various questions.
>
> > Those who choose to respond to off topic questions, are making this
> > forum less searchable for relevant information, and less useful for
> > those who want to find information relevant to the group's topic.
>
> > --
> > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu
> > --
>
> > > If you have good
> > > suggestions for alternative places to look for answers to this kind of
> > > question, I'd be more than happy to post questions there.
>
> > Aside from the maps, Google has a pretty good search engine, and it
> > yields a few thousand groups about PHP, in every language
> > imaginable:http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?q=php&;
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