[RESOLVED] Simplexml htmlentities and à,ì,ò etc

[whisher06]

Hi.
If you try this snippet you'll
find out a lot of strange characters 🙁
(with à for instance)

<?php

$document = simplexml_load_file("http://rss.html.it/alldaily.xml");
	foreach($document->channel as $channel){
		echo "<h1>" . $channel->title . "</h1>\n";
		echo "<h2>" . $channel->description . "</h2>\n";
		echo "<h2>Link alla risorsa: <a href='" . $channel->link . "'>" . $channel->link . "</a></h2>\n";
		echo "<h2>Ultimo aggiornamento: " . $channel->lastBuildDate . "</h2>\n";
		echo "<img src='" . $channel->image->url . "' />\n";
		echo "<h3>Lista dei contenuti rss</h3>\n";


		foreach($channel->item as $item){
		   echo "<p><b>Titolo:</b> " . $item->title . "</p>\n"; 
			echo "<p><b>Link:</b> <a href='" . $item->link . "'>" . $item->link . "</a></p>\n";
			echo "<p><b>Descrizione:</b> " . htmlentities($item->description) . "</p>\n";
			echo "<p><b>Autore:</b> " . $item->author . "</p>\n";
			echo "<p><b>Data:</b> " . $item->pubDate . "</p>\n";
			echo "<hr />\n\n";  	
		}
	}

?>

I also tried with utf_encode but it doesn't work
I also tried without htmlentities and guess
you it works.
I also tried both charset=iso-8859-1 and charset=utf-8
and it doesn't work.
I can't figure out why ?
Could you explain me and give me a hint to work it out, please ?
Take care.

[dream_scape]

You have to give htmlentities the character set.

htmlentities($item->description, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')

That should work, but you may want to add:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

and:

ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');

for good measure ;-)

[whisher06]

Thanks a lot buddy it works 😃
Take care.