Re: [xml] Query about Encoding formats(Libxml doesnot recognise windows-1252 encoding scheme)

[Tim Van Holder <tim vanholder anubex com>]

Dheeraj I wrote:
> Hi Tim.
>  
> I don't 100% got what you are trying to say. Is there any solution to
> this problem. how do we go around such issues. There could some other
> formatch not supported by libxml?

libxml2, in and of itself only knows 2 character sets - latin-1
(iso-8859-1) and utf-8 (well, maybe utf-16 too but I'm not sure).
But if compiled appropriately, it can make use of another library,
libiconv, which can handle conversions between many different character
sets (see http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ - codepage 1252 is
clearly listed as supported).
It looks like your libcml2 library is compiled without iconv support,
resulting in the inability to use any character sets other than latin-1
and utf-8, or with a version of libiconv that does not support win1252
(if it's not a windows build, but a Unix one (e.g. HP-UX) you may be the
victim of a limited system iconv() implementation).


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