Php xml encoding issue

Question

Hi guys after 5 hours of research and trying everything I'm so desperate so I write here. I have an XML file coming from a third party. When I try to parse it with SimpleXMLElement it simply says that the string is not in valid XML format and I also found out that this happens due to ANSI encoding the XML file is having. I tried converting the file to UTF-8 -> it gets read by the parser but all my Cyrillic symbols are lost, replaced by meaningless chars. Then in notepad++ I copied the content created a file with utf8 encoding and pasted the content -> it was just fine and got read by the parser. I tried to do it with code but no result -> I get contents of the file, create a file with first bytes, the bytes of UTF-8 file, output the content and when I open it -> meaningless chars instead of Cyrillic. Help me please I really need to convert this file to UTF-8 valid for the XML parser or could you please tell me another way to parse the file from XML to array.

Answer 1

Try looking at

http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php and http://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php

Answer 2

您需要弄清楚原始XML文件的编码方式，然后可以使用iconv将其转换为UTF8。