[phpxmlrpc-devel] proper data encoding in string value

[maHo <lu...@ma...>]

there is a problem in encoding string value to xmlrpcval.

original code uses htmlentities, which converts chars>0x127
to &someentity; format. this format doesn't stand well
with php xml parser, and disaster is ready, if there is
a must to transfer some letters, ie. from polish alphabet.

solutions:
1)the xmlrpc spec says that only '<' and '&' characters
need to be translated to entities.
so strtr($body,array("<"=3D>"&lt;,"&"=3D>"&amp;")) instead of
htmlentities($body) is better IMHO.

2)changing default encoding from "UTF-8" to
"iso-8859-1" helps a lot. I don't know why, it's very strange, (as=20
strange is fact,that php provides only iso8859-1 and utf8 encodings)
  but with mentioned changes, you can transfer all data, even binary,
as xmlrpc string.

i've posted the proper patch at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=3D34455&atid=3D411=
302&file_id=3D52440&aid=3D750764


pozdrav

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