[TYPO3-dev] t3lib_div:xml2array() and PHP 4.4.x

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> The code has a switch for PHP 5.x to use the XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING 
> option.
> 
> While devolping an extension it occured to me that this is also 
> necessary for PHP 4.4.0.
> 
> Can anybody confirm this? It's not mentioned in the PHP docs, but 
> setting the option makes my code work ;-)

Aha! New infos:

My editor on Windows adds byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the 
file. It adds the correct sequence EF BB BF to signify UTF-8.

But this affects how the data is treated by PHP on Linux. If I remove the 
BOM everyting is fine otherwise I get garbled data unless I set the target 
encoding.

As a BOM is a Unicode feature and I doesn't have always the choice of input 
methods I think that TYPO3 should handle such a case consitently across PHP 
  platforms (version and OS). Therefore I suggest to look for the BOM and 
if a UTF-8 BOM is found to set XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING.

Masi