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    copied!<p>I'm trying to load parse a Google Weather API response (Chinese response).</p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=11791&amp;hl=zh-CN" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a> is the API call.</p> <pre><code>// This code fails with the following error $xml = simplexml_load_file('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=11791&amp;hl=zh-CN'); </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>( ! ) Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xB6 0xE0 0xD4 0xC6 in C:\htdocs\weather.php on line 11</p> </blockquote> <p>Why does loading this response fail?</p> <p>How do I encode/decode the response so that <code>simplexml</code> loads it properly?</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Here is the code and output.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $googleData = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=11102&amp;hl=zh-CN'); $xml = simplexml_load_string($googleData); </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>( ! ) Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xB6 0xE0 0xD4 0xC6 in C:\htdocs\test4.php on line 3 Call Stack Time Memory Function Location 1 0.0020 314264 {main}( ) ..\test4.php:0 2 0.1535 317520 simplexml_load_string ( string(1364) ) ..\test4.php:3</p> <p>( ! ) Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: t_system data="SI"/> <p>( ! ) Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^ in C:\htdocs\test4.php on line 3 Call Stack Time Memory Function Location 1 0.0020 314264 {main}( ) ..\test4.php:0 2 0.1535 317520 simplexml_load_string ( string(1364) ) ..\test4.php:3</p> </blockquote>
 

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