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

Discussion in 'Google API' started by Jojo, Oct 2, 2004.

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    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?
     
    Jojo, Oct 2, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    You shouldn't have to do anything special since the API uses UTF-8 encoding. Just make sure you pass the query as unicode.
     
    digitalpoint, Oct 2, 2004 IP
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    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';
    PHP:
    Looks like I need to programm an own Soap-Client. NuSoap seems not the best way to use the Google-API.
     
    Jojo, Oct 3, 2004 IP
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    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.
     
    qll, Oct 6, 2004 IP
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    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.)
     
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