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

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

I'd guess the characters are UTF8. The API is all UTF8, though XML files can
be in various codings. I think this is very much a libxml FAQ.

This will be easier in a future version of libxml++ which uses
Glib::ustring.

Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Jarosch [mailto:thomas jarosch intra2net com] 
> Sent: Freitag, 6. Juni 2003 15:13
> To: libxmlplusplus-general lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [libxml++] iso-8859-1 encoded characters
> 
> 
> 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.
> (look at the output of dom_parser example)
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> I'm using libxml++-0.23.0 and libxml2-2.5.7.
> 
> cheers,
> Thomas
>