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[libxml++] iso-8859-1 encoded characters

[Thomas J. <tho...@in...>]

Hi!

I'm experiencing a very strange behavior when I try to use special iso-8859-1
characters like the German umlauts. The problem is easily reproducebale
with the dom_parser example program of libxml++.
Attached is a small testcase to show the problem.

When I use the write_to_string() function, everything is normal.
The dom_read_write program shows no sign of a problem, too.
But when you get the content of a node, the umlauts are broken
and show up as two garbage characters.
(look at the output of dom_parser example)

Any help is appreciated.

I'm using libxml++-0.23.0 and libxml2-2.5.7.

cheers,
Thomas

Re: [libxml++] iso-8859-1 encoded characters

[Christophe de V. <cde...@al...>]

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Le Vendredi 6 Juin 2003 15:12, Thomas Jarosch a =E9crit :
> Hi!
>
> I'm experiencing a very strange behavior when I try to use special
> iso-8859-1 characters like the German umlauts. The problem is easily
> reproducebale with the dom_parser example program of libxml++.
> Attached is a small testcase to show the problem.
>
> When I use the write_to_string() function, everything is normal.
> The dom_read_write program shows no sign of a problem, too.
> But when you get the content of a node, the umlauts are broken
> and show up as two garbage characters.

This is normal. The in-memory encoding format of libxml2 is _always_ UTF-8,=
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which special character are encoded on several octets. You can use iconv to=
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translate them to iso-8859-1.

Cheers,

Christophe
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Re: [libxml++] iso-8859-1 encoded characters

[Thomas J. <tho...@in...>]

> > When I use the write_to_string() function, everything is normal.
> > The dom_read_write program shows no sign of a problem, too.
> > But when you get the content of a node, the umlauts are broken
> > and show up as two garbage characters.
>
> This is normal. The in-memory encoding format of libxml2 is _always_ UTF-8,
> in which special character are encoded on several octets. You can use iconv
> to translate them to iso-8859-1.

Thanks for the two quick responses!

Either I'm going to use iconv or I now have a good reason
to switch my code to UTF-8 anyway.

Thomas