The problem:
The xml output includes french accented characters, for example, à
But the xml parser I wrote reads it as Ã
I've tried variations of str_replace, but to no avail. :/ I've also tried experimenting with htmlentities, htmlspecialchar, and even html_entity_decode (for good measure).
I think this has to do with some php setting, but damned if I know which one it is... On one server it works fine, on the main server this script is running on, it generates the above mentioned problem.
I tried looking through the php.ini files on both servers, but it wasn't obvious to me....
please help?!