I was working with webservices using PHP yesterday and I got some strange characters in my WSDL page.

These characters are: 

From Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)

“The byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character used to signal the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream. It is encoded at U+FEFF byte order mark (BOM). BOM use is optional, and, if used, should appear at the start of the text stream. Beyond its specific use as a byte-order indicator, the BOM character may also indicate which of the several Unicode representations the text is encoded in.”

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

After a hardly time wasted working on it, I finally found the solution. Two things:

$server->soap_defencoding = 'UTF-8';
$server->decode_utf8 = false;
$server->encode_utf8 = true;

I also tryed to change the defaultcharset encoding in my php.ini and httpd.conf. But it didnt’t work so well.

The really solution was change the charset of my config.php

require_once("config.php");

Can you belive? It killed all my worries.

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