Just forget this last post. A danish guy gave me the "easy" tip.

  $name=$row['name'];
  $name=utf8_encode($name);
  $newnode->setAttribute("name", $name);
  $address=$row['address'];
  $address=utf8_encode($address);
  $newnode->setAttribute("address", $address);

Everything is now functioning 
http://www.tinemuller.dk/googlemap/tutorial/storelocator/library_phpsqlsearch_map.htm

/Tine



"Tine Müller" <tinem@e...> skrev i en meddelelse 
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> Thanks for trying to help but it will not work no matter what I do.:-(
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> I would ask you if you would please tell me WHAT code to change from the 
> tutorial 
> http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87134&topic=11364 when 
> it used with danish char in the table so that I can try that? And I will 
> use utf-8 all the places and then it should work but it doesn't.:-(
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> Information about webserver
>      OS: Debian Linux 4.0
>      Webserver: Apache 2
>      PHP: Yes, PHP 5.2 - phpinfo
>      PHP safe-mode: Not on
>      MySQL: Yes, MySQL 5.0
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> My table use "utf8_danish_ci".
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> /Tine
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