using PHP/XML with iso-8859-1

[finger]

hello,

i've a xml-file with a latin-1 encoding (encoding=iso-8859-1)

i am parsing it using php:

// what are we parsing? 
$xml_file  =  '../database/panco-external-iso.xml' ;

// declare the character set - UTF-8 is the default 
$type  =  'iso-8859-1' ;

// create our parser 
$xml_parser  =  xml_parser_create ($type); 

// set some parser options 
xml_parser_set_option ($xml_parser ,  XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING ,  true ); 
xml_parser_set_option ($xml_parser ,  XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING ,  $type ); 

// this tells PHP what functions to call when it finds an element 
// these funcitons also handle the element's attributes 
xml_set_element_handler ($xml_parser ,  'startElement' ,'endElement' ); 

// this tells PHP what function to use on the character data 
xml_set_character_data_handler ($xml_parser ,  'characterData' ); 

so you can see, i am using iso-8859-1 in the xml-file and in the parser. although the umlaute (ä, ü, ö) are not returned correctly (although they are okay, if i look at the file using VI):
"Kürbis" becomes "KÃ1?4rbis" and so on.

has anybody an idea, what i am doing wrong? do i've to save the file in a special way or something?

thanks in advance

stefan

[finger]

okay, everything's fine. just found my bad mistake:

$data = utf8_encode ($data );

i should NOT do that with latin-1-encoded text, should i? 🙂

(copied the code from an example)

cu
stefan