Re: [xml] Build DOM tree manually from ASCII file and getting data into xmlChar

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:53:47PM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:49, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >
> >   French characters (well accented ones for example) are not in ASCII
> > but probably in ISO Latin 1, use the following function to convert them
> > before passing the strings to the API:
> >   int
> >   isolat1ToUTF8(unsigned char* out, int *outlen,
> >                 const unsigned char* in, int *inlen) {
> 
> 
> Why is it "unsigned char* out" and not "xmlChar* out" ?

  for conformance with iconv() interfaces

> Or are they actually made the same by some macro ?

  No need for macros in both case it's a 0 terminated sequence of bytes
you just need to be sure it's in the UTF8 encoding to use it for xmlChar *

Daniel

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