Вот есть граббер RSS и вставляется данные в бокс (SMARTY вроде) на главной!

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<?php    
/*  PHP RSS Reader v1.1
    By Richard James Kendall
    Bugs to richard@richardjameskendall.com
    Free to use, please acknowledge me
    
    Place the URL of an RSS feed in the $file variable.
      
       The $rss_channel array will be filled with data from the feed,
       every RSS feed is different by by and large it should contain:
      
       Array {
           [TITLE] = feed title
           [DESCRIPTION] = feed description
           [LINK] = link to their website
          
           [IMAGE] = Array {
                       [URL] = url of image
                       [DESCRIPTION] = alt text of image
                   }
          
           [ITEMS] = Array {
                       [0] = Array {
                               [TITLE] = item title
                               [DESCRIPTION] = item description
                               [LINK = a link to the story
                           }
                       .
                       .
                       .
                   }
       }
      
       By default it retrives the Reuters Oddly Enough RSS feed. The data is put into the array
       structure so you can format the information as you see fit.
*/
set_time_limit(0);

$file = RSS_FEED_URL;

$rss_channel = array();
$currently_writing = "";
$main = "";
$item_counter = 0;

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
       global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main;
       switch($name) {
           case "RSS":
           case "RDF:RDF":
           case "ITEMS":
               $currently_writing = "";
               break;
           case "CHANNEL":
               $main = "CHANNEL";
               break;
           case "IMAGE":
               $main = "IMAGE";
               $rss_channel["IMAGE"] = array();
               break;
           case "ITEM":
               $main = "ITEMS";
               break;
           default:
               $currently_writing = $name;
               break;
       }
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
       global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $item_counter;
       $currently_writing = "";
       if ($name == "ITEM") {
           $item_counter++;
       }
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
    global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main, $item_counter;
    if ($currently_writing != "") {
        switch($main) {
            case "CHANNEL":
                if (isset($rss_channel[$currently_writing])) {
                    $rss_channel[$currently_writing] .= $data;
                } else {
                    $rss_channel[$currently_writing] = $data;
                }
                break;
            case "IMAGE":
                if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing])) {
                    $rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] .= $data;
                } else {
                    $rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] = $data;
                }
                break;
            case "ITEMS":
                if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing])) {
                    $rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] .= $data;
                } else {
                    //print ("rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data<br>");
                    $rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data;
                }
                break;
        }
    }
}

if (SHOW_RSS_NEWS == 'true') {
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die("could not open XML input");
}

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
    if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
        die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                    xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                    xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    }
}

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}
?>


Проблема в следующем:
если я выбираю как источник RSS сайт в кодировке utf-8, то он новости собирает, в модуль выводит, а вот кодировку оставляет utf8, а так как сайт у меня весь в 1251 то получается нечитаемые символы

если же я выбираю источником сайт с кодировкой 1251, то он пишет ошибку из
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die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",


Помогите решить проблему:
либо чтоб он не выводил ошибку и 1251 нормально выводил
либо utf8 при выводе в нормальную 1251 кодировку переделывал

Спасибо!