How to use the Api with special characters like ä, ö and ü?

[Jojo]

Hello,

I am programming an German Tool to use the Google API. I use NuSoap.

Now I have problems with special characters, like the German letters ä, ö and ü.
At the moment I haven´t any idea how to use them on a query in the right way. Looks like Google or NuSoap is ignoring them?

Any idea where the mistake could be?

[digitalpoint]

You shouldn't have to do anything special since the API uses UTF-8 encoding. Just make sure you pass the query as unicode.

[Jojo]

Looks like I found the problem. I change this two lines and use now ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.


// var $soap_defencoding = 'UTF-8';
var $soap_defencoding = 'ISO-8859-1';


Looks like I need to programm an own Soap-Client. NuSoap seems not the best way to use the Google-API.

[qll]

Looks like I found the problem. I change this two lines and use now ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.


// var $soap_defencoding = 'UTF-8';
var $soap_defencoding = ' ISO-8859-1 ';


Looks like I need to programm an own Soap-Client. NuSoap seems not the best way to use the Google-API.


Good finding. I am using direct none API
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&q=sina
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=sina
do not look much different.

[digitalpoint]

None of the soap clients are very good actually. I ended up writing my own for the things I need it for (search engine script, keyword tracker, etc.)