htmlentities is built on ascii, so other characters would be special
characters, so it would convert them, also it won't work with UTF-8.
try to use xmlwriter for building xmls, (and use utf-8 with it) it's much
better
On 4/25/07, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> I am writing some code that is going to send a single AJAX request to run
> a query, and the result would be used to populate 3 dropdown select
> elements. Since the end result was going to be html, i thought of building
> the select element entirely on the server and then return it and simply
> insert it into the element using element.innerHTML. So my XML document was
> like so:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
> <info>
> <userSelect>
> htmlentities("<select name='user'><option
> value='x'>X</option>...</select>");
> </userSelect>
> ...
> </info>
>
> This worked just fine. But when the text of the option was in arabic,
> parsing the XMl in javascript would simply halt and not give an error.
> checking the headers showed that the response was containing some very weird
> characters like so:
>
> Ù�Ù�Ø
>
> ;¯Ù�Ø© Ù�Ù�
> عÙ�Ù� اÙ
>
> ;�حاسÙ�Ø
>
> .
> Adding encoding="utf-8" to the xml header didn't help.
>
> When i changed the xml document to like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
> <info>
> <userSelect>
> <user id="x">X</user>
> <user id="y">Y</user>
> ...
> </userSelect>
> ...
> </info>
>
> And then built the entire select on the client side, it worked perfectly
> with arabic information.
>
> I thought the problem might be with the htmlentities not understanding
> arabic characters, so i did
> iconv(mb_detect_encoding($select, "auto"), 'UTF-8', $select); But this
> didn't help either.
>
> I'm now using the latter technique in my work, but i was wondering why the
> first one didn't work? is the problem with htmlentities like i guessed or is
> something entirely different?
>
> --
> Al-Faisal El-Dajani
> Phone: +962-7-77 799 781
> P.O Box: 140056
> 11814 Amman, Jordan
> >
>
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