[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4330: Make MagpieRSS use UTF-8 as default encoding

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#4330: Make MagpieRSS use UTF-8 as default encoding
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 Reporter:  nbachiyski    |        Owner:     
     Type:  defect (bug)  |       Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  2.9
Component:  General       |      Version:     
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:     
 Keywords:  has-patch     |  
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Comment (by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parser-create.php

 "The optional encoding  specifies the character encoding for the
 input/output in PHP 4. Starting from PHP 5, the input encoding is
 automatically detected, so that the encoding  parameter specifies only the
 output encoding. In PHP 4, the default output encoding is the same as the
 input charset. If empty string is passed, the parser attempts to identify
 which encoding the document is encoded in by looking at the heading 3 or 4
 bytes. In PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, the default output charset is ISO-8859-1,
 while in PHP 5.0.2 and upper is UTF-8. The supported encodings are
 ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII."

 Imo, UTF-8 is the better default.

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