Swedish ÅÄÖ does not work

[vigour]

I'm trying to read a .xml file but the Swedish ÅÄÖ does not work. I get ä instead of ä for example. Can someone please tell me why? Here is my code.

$xml = simplexml_load_file("bilder.xml");
foreach ($xml->bilder->bild as $bild)
{
echo $bild->text;
echo '<br>';
}

Same thing happens if I save the result to mySQL each lap in the loop. mySQL will not show me ÅÄÖ in a correct way when looking at the data with phpmyadmin.

[bradgrafelman]

1. If it doesn't work when displaying it, make sure you've outputted the proper header so that the browser knows to use the UTF-8 encoding (or whatever was used to create the accents in the XML file - UTF-8 should work, I'd think).

2. Same as above for SQL; check the character encoding used on the tables.