2008/11/22 tsg21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> I believe there's a character set issue in the xml being returned by
> the HTTP geocoder.
>
> If you fetch this url: (key omitted, doesn't seem to matter)
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml&ll=47.498403,19.040759
>
> The returned XML presents itself as UTF-8 in the xml declaration, but
> it contains characters which appear to be something like ISO-8859-1.
> It's not valid UTF-8, at any rate.
>
> Has this been noticed before?

yes
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#charencoding

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=232

if you want utf8, you have to explicitly request it - the XML header is bogus.

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Barry

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