unicode with dom parser

[BlackenedSky]

Hi,

 

I'm having trouble displaying unicode characters correctly when using the DOM parser to display strings on the page. Is there any way to get it to display them correctly, or alternatively a built in php function to replace them all with the HTML code version when saving to the database.

 

I have a php function pulling information from a database, and generating an xml document. Characters are being preserved in the database and displayed correctly when not using xml and parsing it.

However, characters such as the Euro sign, ñ é etc are not displaying when parsed, just a square character (Pe�br />)which is then in turn screwing up any HTML elements after it.

 

It is vital that I can support them as it is a website in Spanish, and an accent can be applied to ANY character, and the ñ,Ñ characters are common too. However, I got around the Euro sign problem using the HTML character code. As you can imagine it's not really feasible to create a function replacing them all with HTML codes as there is a huge range!

 

Thanks!