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Asked: 2026-05-24T16:52:46+00:00

I’m working with XML files, and sometimes I’m facing with an XML encoding problem,

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I’m working with XML files, and sometimes I’m facing with an XML encoding problem, for example, instead of ö I’m getting ö. How can I fix this in php?

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    Use html_entity_decode(), example (from PHP manual):

    $orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now";

$a = htmlentities($orig);

$b = html_entity_decode($a);

echo $a; // I'll &quot;walk&quot; the &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; now

echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now

    And your case specifically is covered here:
    http://codepad.viper-7.com/4DIrsM

    NB: The function’s 3rd parameter is the character set encoding. By default it is ISO-8859-1 (according to PHP manual), but most websites are in UTF-8, so you need to set the parameter yourself as I did above.

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