iconv or xmlsimpledocument with windows-1250

Does anyone has any experience with these two, I've lost a s**tload of
time trying to make them work with a well formed xml document encoded in
windows-1250 encoding, but simplexml works only with utf-8 and
iso-8859-1 and iconv-ing the string with original xml in it
($isostr=iconv('WINDOWS-1250', 'ISO-8859-1', $winstr);) before xml
parsing did no good (illegal characters, which i could //IGNORE or
//TRANSLIT but then I would loose characters that I needed in a first
place). Finally I ended up writing my own parsing routine for that
particular xml file. Damn, and I hoped that I could use these cool new
xml parsing capabilities that were so hyped in php5 (the language in
question is php 5.0.4)
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Any ideas?
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B.r.K.o.N.j.A = Bionic Robotic Knight Optimized for Nocturnal Judo and
Assasination

Hello,
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As far as I can tell from your post, it seems you're converting to
wrong charset. ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) can't handle the characters you
need - my guess is that you need Serbian latin. Try iconv- ing the
string to UTF-8.
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Vladislav
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Allready did that and it worked fine as expected (WIN-1250 -ISO-8859-1
was a gross oversight on my part... :)) Anyway, if anyone can use this:
When simplexml-ing a xml file that's not in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 (and
that xml file has encoding tag within), simplexml internally converts it
to utf-8 and returns utf-8 data (which started my problem since I
believed that I'm getting win-1250 data as stated in xml document... and
things just took from there ... :))
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Thx,
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P.S. I was actually needin' Croatian latin (though it's *exactly* the
same as Serbian one, you wouldn't make a lot of friends here calling it
Serbian :)))
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B.r.K.o.N.j.A = Bionic Robotic Knight Optimized for Nocturnal Judo and
Assasination

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:) Yeah, I get that ... Just wanted to help, no insult intended.
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