Re: [Feedreader-development] Problem

[Marcus H. <mar...@ep...>]

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From: "Toomas Toots" <to...@i-...>
To: "Feedreader Development" <fee...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Feedreader-development] Problem


> Marcus Hettlage wrote:
>
> > The current developement version of FeedReader uses only the OpenXML
> > XDOM-Parser.
> > This parser is stricter than the ICXML-parser that was used before.
> > This results in the situation, that some XML-files can't be parsed,
> > i.e. loaded and used.
> > This applies for example to the german-translation file where "umlaut
> > U" and other
> > german specific characters are used that are not properly encoded
> > according to the
> > procssing instruction at the beginning of the file. The file says that
> > it's UTF-8
> > where in reality it's "Windows 12xx".
>
> This is not problem at all. Users download files from www.feedreader.com
> and downloading is being managed by php script  where at the moment is
> print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n..... It's quite easy
> for me to change this. Only problem is that i do not know right
> encodings. I can put diferent encoding for every translation file, if
> somebody gives me right encodings.

This should not be too hard to find out. I'll check them and tell you what
encoding we need.

>
> > This applies also to the headlines.xml and other files.
> > What do you think is the best and easiest way to fix it?
>
> What do you think is the right encoding for headlines,*.xml files? One
> possibility is to check for parsing error and if parsing error occures,
> then manually do string replace on  xml stream? From utf-8 to something
> new so that xml parser will not complain?

That is the same solution I'd come up with. I think I'll do it that way.

>
> Can you tell me, what kind of encoding is utf-8? What are right and what
> are not right characters for this encoding. And if somebody has japanese
> characters and german characters at the same time, what kind of encoding
> is this?

have a look at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2279.html

Greetings
  Marcus