simplexml_load_file & spanish characters

[al_caughey]

I am using simplexml_load_file to retrieve data from google maps...

simplexml_load_file fails if the returned xml contains spanish text; for example, see:

http://www.power-spar.com/EnerCalc2.0/latlonglookup2.php?address=&city=&province=&country=Spain

Google returns:

<kml>
&#8722;
<Response>
<name>,+,+,+Spain</name>
&#8722;
<Status>
<code>200</code>
<request>geocode</request>
</Status>
&#8722;
<Placemark id="p1">
<address>España</address>
&#8722;
<AddressDetails Accuracy="1">
&#8722;
<Country>
<CountryNameCode>ES</CountryNameCode>
</Country>
</AddressDetails>
&#8722;
<Point>
<coordinates>-3.749220,40.463667,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</Response>
</kml>

simplexml_load_file fails on 'España'

I'm certain that this is an encoding issue... not sure how to overcome it... any help you can offer would be appreciated...

[al_caughey]

added &oe=uft-8 to the URL and everything works properly now🙂