<?php

function callback($buffer) {
  
$cp1252 = array(
    
128 => 8364, # euro sign
    
130 => 8218, # single low-9 quotation mark
    
131 =>  402, # latin small letter f with hook
    
132 => 8222, # double low-9 quotation mark
    
133 => 8230, # horizontal ellipsis
    
134 => 8224, # dagger
    
135 => 8225, # double dagger
    
136 =>  710, # modifier letter circumflex accent
    
137 => 8240, # per mille sign
    
138 =>  352, # latin capital letter s with caron
    
139 => 8249, # single left-pointing angle quotation mark
    
140 =>  338, # latin capital ligature oe
    
142 =>  381, # latin capital letter z with caron
    
145 => 8216, # left single quotation mark
    
146 => 8217, # right single quotation mark
    
147 => 8220, # left double quotation mark
    
148 => 8221, # right double quotation mark
    
149 => 8226, # bullet
    
150 => 8211, # en dash
    
151 => 8212, # em dash
    
152 =>  732, # small tilde
    
153 => 8482, # trade mark sign
    
154 =>  353, # latin small letter s with caron
    
155 => 8250, # single right-pointing angle quotation mark
    
156 =>  339, # latin small ligature oe
    
158 =>  382, # latin small letter z with caron
    
159 =>  376);# latin capital letter y with diaeresis

  
for ($i=strlen($buffer); $i--;) {
    if (
array_key_exists(ord($buffer[$i]),$cp1252)){
      
$buffer=substr_replace($buffer, "&#".$cp1252[ord($buffer[$i])].';',$i,1);
    }
  }
  return
utf8_encode($buffer);
}

ob_start("callback");
header("Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8");

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>utf-8 xhtml in PHP</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn</p>
<p>windows-1252 “smart” quotes</p>

</body>
</html>

<?php

ob_end_flush
();

?>