Still looking for solution to character encoding

Norman_Graham

Hi all

I have searched the boards on this forum and also googled extensively to find an answer to my question. There have been several other similar questions on this board, but none of them have every had any replies.

I am doing this: using XSLT to convert XML to HTML (with PHP, of course). It works like a dream. I only have one problem: non-English characters (French and German in my case) don't work - a strange symbol appears in the HTML. The XML encoding is UTF-8. What can I do to include words in the XML with characters such as ü or Ä or é or À which then appear correctly in the HTML?

Your help is much appreciated.

Norm

Shrike

utf8_encode() / utf8_decode(). Can't guarantee that will work 🙂

Norman_Graham

Thanks for that, Shrike.

Excuse my ignorance, but how exactly do I incorporate this function in my code? The XSLT transformation is written to a variable $result which I then just print to screen. Here's a sample:

<?php

// Bunch of file-to-string preparation

// Allocate a new XSLT processor
$xh = xslt_create();

// Process the document
$result = xslt_process($xh, "arg:/_xml", "arg:/_xsl", NULL, $arguments, $param);
if ($result) {   

   print $result;   

}
else {
   print "Error! The reason for this is:<br />" . xslt_error($xh) . 
   print "<br />The error code for this error is:<&nbsp;>" . xslt_errno($xh);
}

xslt_free($xh);

?>

How do I make sure that, say, words like "für" or "appellé" appear correctly on the screen? They don't at the moment.

Thanks

Norm

Shrike

I don't know sorry, never used this before. Perhaps run the input through utf8_encode() before applying the XSL transformation?

jek

Try this:

<?php 

// Bunch of file-to-string preparation 

// Allocate a new XSLT processor 
$xh = xslt_create(); 

// Process the document 
$result = xslt_process($xh, "arg:/_xml", "arg:/_xsl", NULL, $arguments, $param); 
if ($result) {    

   $result = utf8_decode($result);
   print $result;    

} 
else { 
   print "Error! The reason for this is:<br />" . xslt_error($xh) .  

   print "<br />The error code for this error is:<&nbsp;>" . xslt_errno($xh); 
} 

xslt_free($xh); 

?>

The change is made inside the if-statement ($result = utf8_decode($result)😉

Norman_Graham

Hi Jek

I really thought that was going to do it, but it just turned the letters into question marks.

Got any more ideas?

Thanks

Norm