When tyring to geocode an address with french accents an error is generated.

" warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:
Entity: line 1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8 "


The error is in line Google.php line 107

$xml = simplexml_load_string( $string );

The can be fixed with a small function to remove accents.

A function to do this could be
 
function unaccent($text) {
  static $search, $replace;
  if (!$search) {
    $search = $replace = array();
    // Get the HTML entities table into an array
    $trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
    // Go through the entity mappings one-by-one
    foreach ($trans as $literal => $entity) {
      // Make sure we don't process any other characters
      // such as fractions, quotes etc:
      if (ord($literal) >= 192) {
        // Get the accented form of the letter
        $search[] = $literal;
        // Get e.g. 'E' from the string '&Eacute'
        $replace[] = $entity[1];
      }
    }
  }
  return str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
}

and line 107 would now be

$xml = simplexml_load_string( unaccent($string) );