July, 24, 2003 archives

this msnbc article about spy kids 3d mentions that they'll be handing out red-and-blue glasses. i guess it isn't feasible to do a wide release of such a film that uses polarized lenses, even though it could be full-color that way. (or does the red-blue technique yield color pictures, too?)

back when i worked at knowledge adventure, we built a small site showcasing anaglyphic images from older products, sources we found over the internet, and some that our artists made for kicks. one of the several sites i should have archived. (here's another.)

oh, and how it pains me to see where that adventure.com link goes now. these were the days.

given xml input as a string with a xml declaration that specifies the encoding, what can i do to always get back utf-8 data in my character data handler?

that is, how do i get "i ♥ são paulo" as utf-8 given either of these two inputs:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<foo>i &#9829; são paulo</foo>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<foo>i &#9829; s&#227;o paulo</foo>

handling the second case is easy, it is the first case that i can't figure out.

and someone deserves a kick in the teeth for making php4's xml parser default to iso-8859-1.