character encoding - Document labelled UTF-16 but has UTF-8 content in Entity PHP error

Question

I recently transferred my site to PHP5.3 from PHP5.2. I had in place an authentication module which was working fine earlier but now gives the error

Document labelled UTF-16 but has UTF-8 content in Entity

I have tried replacing all occurrences of UTF-8 with UTF-16 but that did not help. What could be the possible solutions / causes of this error?

Answer 1

See this:

http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/document-labelled-utf-16-but-has-utf-8-content-694388.html

Solution from this link simply replaces encoding information in the XML code:

$xml = $result->GetWeatherResult;
$xml = preg_replace('/(<?xml[^?]+?)utf-16/i', '$1utf-8', $xml);  

Not a nice solution, but worked for OP.