Question

I have code which is creating an XML, my only problem is with the encoding of words like á, olá and ção.
These characters dont appear correctly and when I try reading the XML I get an error displayed relating to that character.

$dom_doc = new DOMDocument("1.0", "utf-8");
$dom_doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom_doc->formatOutput = true;
$element = $dom->createElement("hotels");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

$contact = $dom_doc->createElement( "m" . $row['id'] );

$nome = $dom_doc->createElement("nome", $row['nome'] );

$data1 = $dom_doc->createElement("data1", $row['data'] );
$data2 = $dom_doc->createElement("data2", $row['data2'] );


$contact->appendChild($nome);
$contact->appendChild($data1);
$contact->appendChild($data2);

$element->appendChild($contact);
$dom_doc->appendChild($element);

What can I change to fix my problem, I am using utf-8???

Answer 1

You are using utf-8, the 8-bit unicode encoding format. Even though it properly supports all 1,112,064 code points in Unicode its possible that there is an issue here.
Try UTF-16 as the standard, just an idea. See below:

$dom_doc = new DOMDocument("1.0", "utf-16");

OR

$dom_doc = new DOMDocument("1.0", "ISO-10646");