I'm currently working on a web service project using php5 and have a problem with characters like ö,ä,ü,ß, etc.

The web service works quite simple: The service is a php script located on our server. There are two client libraries (one written in C# and one written in php). The clients send data to the php file on our server with the http post command.

I was able to get the C# client working by using an utf8 encoding to write the data to the stream. The php client (uses cURL) doesn't work though.

php client:
Code:

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$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "[URL]"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 300); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml")); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, utf8_decode($requestBody)); 
		
$responseBody = curl_exec($ch);

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service:
Code:

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$xml = simplexml_load_string($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']);

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I tried echo'ing the post data, everything looks ok. The generated xml document, however, contains the root element, but all child elements are missing.

Any ideas?