Re: libxml2 in gnome 1.4

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On 22 Mar 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes:
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, James Henstridge wrote:
> > 
> > > So this 1.x version will cause problems for programs that don't handle
> > > encodings correctly?  I am sure there is a fair number of libxml1 programs
> > > that do something like this:
> > >   grab text out of GtkEntry (or GtkText, or whatever)
> > >   put text in xmlNode as content
> > >   save XML file
> > >   load XML file
> > >   grab content of xmlNode
> > >   put text in entry
> > > 
> > > (which will work great for english, and quite often works for other
> > > locales).
> > 
> > This is exactly my use case -- could you tell me what I should do between
> > steps 1 and 2, and 5 and 6?
> > 
> 
> Well, you have to call iconv() and also have configure.in hackery to 
> find libiconv if you need it, I would guess.
> 
> GLib 2.0 has functions g_locale_to_utf8() and g_locale_from_utf8(),
> maybe someone can come up with a canonical standalone version of those
> to be cut-and-pasted all over the place to deal with libxml.

 Sorry for replying to this mail - I killed original letter.

 There is libunicode (used by RedCarpet) that contains iconv wrapper and
fallback implementation and obviously g_locale_to_utf8() and
g_locale_from_utf8() analogs.

> Havoc
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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