Comments on: Php – Fix “Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding” error when loading xml

By: AP

AP — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:04:21 +0000

The “strait answer” that worked for me was encoding the load_string.
simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode($xml));

I was already encoding in the API call, that had fixed an issue before, but adding it here fixed my issue.

By: ayo

ayo — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:40:20 +0000

kindly publish the ‘straight answer to this error message’. thanks.

By: ayo

ayo — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:32:17 +0000

In reply to Dean. kindly publish the 'straight answer to this error message'. thanks.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:43:52 +0000

Thanks!
It was very helpful for me too

By: Guilherme Akio Sakae

Guilherme Akio Sakae — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:46:00 +0000

In reply to Gina.

Hi Gina,

Here’s my line of code: simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode(strip_tags($_product->getDescription())));

In my case the product description contains some invalid chars and some html tags so I have to use the strip_tags function to remove them and then a can use the other 2 functions to proper encode the string.

Hope this help’s you.

By: CoursesWeb

CoursesWeb — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 18:12:00 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for this article. It waz useful for me.

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:49:00 +0000

Can you tell me exactly what you did to fix this issue?

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 25 May 2014 04:49:00 +0000

After much Googling, I finally find a straight answer to this error message. Thanks!