Active Record not showing the result UTF-8

[eluser]laytone[/eluser]
And this..

Addition to QLeap's post:
SimpleXML will return a reference to an object containing the node value and you can't use references in session variables as there is no feasible way to restore a reference to another variable.

This won't work too:
$val=$this->xml->node->attributes()->name;
echo $array[$val]; // will cause a warning because of the wrong index type.

You have to convert/cast to a String first:
echo $array[(string)$val];

This will work as expected, because converting will call the __toString() method. Therefor echo works too:
echo $val; // will display the name

Hell, here is a link .. it appears we are not the first to come across the problem!

http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php