Comments on codesimple: Google maps UTF-8 problem

Right on! That (&oe=utf-8) works. Thanks.

2009-09-24T21:11:16.744+01:00

Right on! That (&oe=utf-8) works.
Thanks.

This totally saved my bacon. Thanks!

2009-09-16T19:58:22.953+01:00

This totally saved my bacon. Thanks!

finding this post&comments rescued me from going i...

2009-02-01T18:22:00.000Z

finding this post&comments rescued me from going insane. spent 1 hour digging until i found this post. this should be stated in big red letters in den google documentation.

Thank you so much for this hintHOrst

2009-01-30T19:07:00.000Z

Thank you so much for this hint

HOrst

Yes, this was the problem. I am new to this. Just ...

2008-06-12T11:25:00.000+01:00

Yes, this was the problem. I am new to this. Just a quick hint to others. $request_url = $base_url . "&oe=utf-8&q=" . urlencode($address);

Comment from Greg: Many thanks as well! I spent ...

2007-06-14T23:27:00.000+01:00

Comment from Greg:

Many thanks as well! I spent 4 four futile hours, and then 4 wonderful minutes to read this site :)

Comment from Christophe: Thank you Yosh, you just...

2007-05-19T21:16:00.000+01:00

Comment from Christophe:

Thank you Yosh, you just saved us some time & dirty hacks.
Cheers!

Comment from mickey: Thx a bunch 4 this forum and...

2007-03-23T08:57:00.000Z

Comment from mickey:

Thx a bunch 4 this forum and many thx 2 Yosh. I use that parameter "oe=UTF-8" in my HTTP-Request and my Java API doesnt have problems anymore by parsing the xml-output-stream. I didn't try with changing the user-agent though. I'll try later.

Comment from Daniel: Was beating my head against ...

2007-03-06T18:33:00.000Z

Comment from Daniel:

Was beating my head against the wall with this issue. I was trying to scrub output from translate.google.com. Setting Konqueror useragent would always get me non-unicode answers. drove me crazy.
Demn google for user-agent polling... And great thanks to you for this little post.

Cool - I don't have to pretend to be Firefox anymo...

2006-09-07T18:02:00.000+01:00

Cool - I don't have to pretend to be Firefox anymore. Thought there must be a better way.

I'm sure the Google docs say everything should always be UTF8 anyway but that certainly works.

Thanks,

Mike.

Comment from Yosh: Hi! I just stumbled about the ...

2006-09-07T17:09:00.000+01:00

Comment from Yosh:

Hi!
I just stumbled about the same problem as you posted in the Google Groups.

I got a hint from another guy.
Try adding "&oe=utf-8" to the calling URL. And you will see that the Google Server responds to you in UTF-8 in the Response header instead of ISO-8859-1!!!

Regards