Simplexml_load_string() fail to parse error

Question

I\'m trying to load parse a Google Weather API response (Chinese response).

Here is the API call.

// This code fails with the following error
$xml =          


        

Answer 1

Try to add in the url query parameter eo = utf-8. In this case, the answer will be exclusively the UTF-8 encoding. It helped me.

http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=?????°ree=??????&oe=utf-8&hl=es