Ok so it looks like I have found a solution which is working consistently.
I found this article: http://www.seopher.com/articles/html_character_encoding_with_php_made_easy And used this function to escape words with special characters: $mystring = mb_convert_encoding($mystring, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'); Hope this helps anyone else who is struggling with special characters čau Mike On Feb 14, 11:55 am, Mike Digital Egg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > OK so I thought it had been fixed but the problem was when I escaped > the characters with htmlentities('word') the app worked consistently > but special characters were showing up incorrectly. So I tried adding > htmlentities('word',null,'UTF-8'), this works on my Google Gadget but > it has caused my Orkut app to start giving the "Malformed XML > document." error again! > > Anyone got any experience dealing with special characters in Orkut? > > Cheers > > Mike > > On Feb 13, 8:19 pm, Mike Digital Egg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Arne, > > > Looks like you were spot on, I am using special language characters > > and had not escaped them, I wrapper them in htmlentities and it seems > > to have worked. > > > Well spotted. > > > Cheers > > > Mike > > > On Feb 13, 8:11 pm, Mike Digital Egg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Arne, > > > > OK thanks for that. Any chance you could point out which characters? > > > > Cheers > > > > Mike > > > > On Feb 13, 8:01 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > I'm seeing some characters in your XML that aren't being escaped to > > > > html > > > > entities. Could you try escaping them before rendering the gadget? I > > > > believe that this is causing Orkut to return the error you are seeing. > > > > > ~Arne > > > > > On Feb 13, 2008 10:35 AM, Mike Digital Egg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Arne, > > > > > > Sorry should have done that before I guess, forgot that most people on > > > > > here are developers and would be able to access it (doh) > > > > > >http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?uid=1555033657840345806&app... > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > On Feb 13, 6:51 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > > Could you post a link to the gadget that is showing the problem? > > > > > > It > > > > > > would be very useful to help us see where the problem lies. > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > ~Arne > > > > > > > On Feb 13, 2008 5:57 AM, Mike Digital Egg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Anyone got any other ideas? It is becoming really frustrating to > > > > > > > test > > > > > > > changes when I have to refresh 10 times to see the change! > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > On Feb 13, 1:46 pm, Mike Digital Egg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Jelena, > > > > > > > > > Yes I am using bpc=1, the strange thing is that it loads > > > > > > > > sometimes > > > > > and > > > > > > > > not others even with no changes to the code. > > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > On Feb 13, 1:43 pm, Jelena Kolokotronis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Are you using bpc=1? Maybe it's old xml orkut tries to load. > > > > > > > > > > And I'm getting Server Error again now... > > > > > > > > > > Jelena > > > > > > > > > > Mike Digital Egg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > I am intermittently getting the following error: > > > > > > > > > > > MALFORMED_XML_DOCUMENT Malformed XML document. > > > > > > > > > > > I need to keep refreshing the page until my app shows. > > > > > > > > > > > Is this a known problem with Open Social or should I look > > > > > > > > > > closer > > > > > to > > > > > > > > > > home? > > > > > > > > > > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
