Character encoding problem

[vineld]

I am experiencing some character encoding  problems. Our system is built in ISO-8859-1 for various reasons. Our database text fields are in our local version of latin-1. So far so good. However, when communicating with other servers we obviously need to send xml data in utf-8 which is where the problems start. What happens is this:

 

1. We have a page saved in ANSI

 

2. I fetch text from the database

 

3. I use utf8_encode(TEXT)

 

4. The above is sent via xml

 

However, on the other side the receiver views the message with characters like 'ö' instead of the correct utf8 string. Where am I going wrong here?

[vineld]

Problem solved. Our soap client apparently didn't use UTF-8 as default...