Unicode¶
Unicode is a standard to represent text. It is maintained by the Unicode Consortium. Unicode provides a widespread standard for characters. It is used everywhere, from computer to phones, online and offline.
Unicode motto : ‘Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers.’
PHP supports unicode in its syntax with the declare() encoding option.
PHP may translate from and to Unicode to other character sets with extensions such as iconv, intl, mbstring.
<?php
$string = <<<XML
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<document>
<cmd>login</cmd>
<login>Richard</login>
</document>
XML;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
print_r($xml);
?>