Re: [libxml++] Libxml++ and Glib

[Dedov A. <ad...@iq...>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:31:22 +0200
Frederik Himpe <fre...@ar...> wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 00:59, Dedov Anton wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am developing C++ XML-RPC library using libxml++
> > (http://libiqxmlrpc.sourceforge.net). I used libxml++ 1.0 till this
> > time. Now I need support for non-ASCII characters in my library. If I
> > understand right libxml++ implements it in 2.x versions by using
> > glib::ustring.
> 
> I've been using libxml++ 1.0 some time ago to develop a SAX parser which 
> treated non-ASCI characters (the files were in UTF-8 and contained characters 
> such as __ and __), and this worked fine with std::string. It's just when for 
> example you ask the length of the string, you will get the length in bytes, 
> which will not correspond to the number of letters in the string, because 
> special characters need two bytes in UTF-8.

So I just need convert any text from my locale's charset to utf-8 every
time I process it to xml (and vice versa)?

Thanks,
Anton Dedov