[xml] French character encoding problem

["Fred Fung" <fred fung versaterm com>]



Hi,

 

We are using libxml version 2.0.0 on Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 2.4.9.

 

I have an xml file with the first line specifying the encoding scheme :

 

         <?xml version="1.0" encoding="LATIN1" ?>

 

and one of the text node in the file is the following :

 

         <FIRSTNAME>FRAN&#199;OIS</FIRSTNAME>

 

 

After the document has been parsed via xmlParseFile( ) and xmlDocGetRootElement( ), a call to xmlNodeGetContent( ) returns "FRANÃOIS" (a strlen of 9) instead of "FRANÇOIS".

 

I put in a call to xmlDebugDumpDocument( ) and it shows "FRAN#C3#87OIS".

 

On the other hand, if I run xmllint from the command line to check the file, "FRANÇOIS" was properly returned and displayed.

 

Am I missing something in the C program to convert the encoded sequence to the origianl character ?

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

Regards,

 

Fred