Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Migration to libxml2

[John F. <jf...@in...>]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:47:58AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / L=E1szl=F3 Kov=E1cs <las...@Su...> was heard to say:
> | 2. This is more serious, libxml2 expects either UTF-8 input or encodi=
ng
> | specified. There are loads of SGML docs out there that are not UTF-8 =
and
> | while in XML it is possible to specify the encoding in the header, th=
is
> | is not in SGML (AFAIK).
>=20
> You could put
>=20
> <?sgml-declaration encoding=3D"ISO-8859-1">
>=20
> Or something at the top of your SGML documents if you wanted to. The
> SGML parser wouldn't care.
>=20

While something like that is an option, I think our problem is a large
body of completed and/or installed docs out there. It would be nice to
have some way of detecting the encoding at run time. Is such a thing
possible?

Cheers,
--=20
John Fleck
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