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    <p>Technically your string is in UTF8, but the HTML encoded characters (when rendered by the browser) are not in UTF8. So <code>&amp;#xa869;</code> is a valid UTF8 String, but the character that is rendered onto the screen from the web browser is not valid UTF8.</p> <p>I would also wrap your echo to the screen (last 2 lines in your example) like this: </p> <pre><code>echo "&lt;p&gt;straight from db = &lt;xmp&gt;".$a-&gt;new_value."&lt;/xmp&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"; echo "&lt;p&gt;utf8_decode() = &lt;xmp&gt;".utf8_decode($a-&gt;new_value)."&lt;/xmp&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"; </code></pre> <p>This will clearly display the point i am making above.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p> <p>The problem actually is an uncontrollable undocumented "Feature" in simplexml_load_string() for PHP. It will automatically convert all characters from their XML entity form strait into their actual char form. The only way to circumvent this is to use simplexml_load_string() like this:</p> <pre><code> $data = simplexml_load_string( '&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;audit&gt; &lt;audit_detail&gt; &lt;fieldname&gt;role_fra&lt;/fieldname&gt; &lt;old_value&gt;&lt;![CDATA[aRo&amp;#x9A6C;e&amp;#x7833;&amp;#x9825;n fran&amp;#xA869;s]]&gt;&lt;/old_value&gt; &lt;new_value&gt;&lt;![CDATA[bRo&amp;#x9A6C;e&amp;#x7833;&amp;#x9825;n fran&amp;#xA869;s]]&gt;&lt;/new_value&gt; &lt;/audit_detail&gt; &lt;/audit&gt;', "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_NOENT | LIBXML_NOCDATA ); print "&lt;PRE&gt;"; print_r($data); exit; </code></pre> <p>You must wrap your elements in <code>&lt;![CDATA[]]&gt;</code> tags and then pass the LIBXML_NOCDATA option to the xml parser. This will force the things in <code>&lt;![CDATA[]]&gt;</code> tags to be cast as String type and PHP can properly handle that outside of a SimpleXMLObject.</p>
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    1. COmay want to look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/374425/convert-utf8-characters-to-iso-88591-and-back-in-php
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    2. CO@Geoffrey: even with the pre, the text remains the same as in my example (the font size changes though). I've tried in both IE and FF. @dqhendricks: Thanks, I'll check that out.
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    3. CO@tekius You may want to try <xmp> insteand of <pre> tags. <XMP> will work in FF to display the raw output to you. Does the concept of `&#xA863` being valid UTF8 make sense? Also the `utf8_decode($a->new_value);` is decoding the decoded information, thus & and # are being turned into a decoded version of themselves, thus all the ???? you see in your output. The <xmp> for raw output should display this. I have updated the code above to reflect the change.
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