Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Migration to libxml2

[Eric B. <e.b...@no...>]

Le Saturday 19 May 2001 08:57, Daniel Veillard a =E9crit :
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:48:05PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > / Dan Mueth <d-...@uc...> was heard to say:
> > | How do these deal with the lack of encoding specification for
> > | DocBook/SGML docs?  It isn't obvious to me why it is a problem for =
XML
> > | docs and libxml2 but not for SGML docs with jade/SP.
> >
> > I'm not sure.
>
>   Argh, if you don't know, who will ... Maybe we will have to ask James.

I know probably as much, or less, as Norm. Here is what I know

SP (jade, SX, etc) has defined rules about the encoding to use. These rul=
es=20
are based on the document's contents as well as the system's default=20
character set and environment variables.

The detailed rules are on:
	http://www.jclark.com/sp/charset.htm

> BTW, if automatic encoding detection is not possible, is there a way in
> DocBook to indicate the encoding if known (for example on the root elem=
ent)
> ? If this detection/advertizing requires human input, it would be great=
 to
> have to deal with it only once.

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| =C9ric Bischoff                              mailto:e.b...@no... =
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