Re: [libxml++] Character encoding, UTF-8 and such

[Morten H. <mor...@pd...>]

On Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:53 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> Morten, the problem isn't that libxml++ doesn't "support" UTF-8 (it =
uses
> UTF-8 for all strings, just like libxml) the issue is that
> std::string::size() returns the number of bytes, but when the string
> contains UTF-8 data the number of bytes is not necessarily the same as
> the number of characters. glib::ustring is UTF-8 aware and can tell =
you
> the correct number of chars.

Yeah, I figured it out as well, just after I wrote the previous message. =
So it really isn't too much of a problem after all;
I just convert my data to UTF-8 right before I pass them on to libxml++, =
and everything works like a charm. :)

Morten.