Re: [libxml++] iso-8859-1 encoded characters

[Christophe de VIENNE <cdevienne alphacent com>]

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Le Vendredi 6 Juin 2003 15:12, Thomas Jarosch a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> I'm experiencing a very strange behavior when I try to use special
> iso-8859-1 characters like the German umlauts. The problem is easily
> reproducebale with the dom_parser example program of libxml++.
> Attached is a small testcase to show the problem.
>
> When I use the write_to_string() function, everything is normal.
> The dom_read_write program shows no sign of a problem, too.
> But when you get the content of a node, the umlauts are broken
> and show up as two garbage characters.

This is normal. The in-memory encoding format of libxml2 is _always_ UTF-8, in 
which special character are encoded on several octets. You can use iconv to 
translate them to iso-8859-1.

Cheers,

Christophe
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