Re: [xml] setting the default charset ?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:49:25PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> So, at the worst case, we could pass the older files through iconv() to make
> sure they're UTF-8 and let libxml2 handle the result.

  Well if you use the libxml2 framework, it will be done progtressively 

> Yes ; I know the default encoding: it's whatever nl_langinfo(CODESET) says
> (but I'd prefer to have to tell libxml myself rather than having libxml try
> to guess). Of course, if it turns out the document I'm feeding to the parser

  Libxml will never look at locales, I garantee this !

> has an encoding specification, that specification shall override the default
> I would give through the (still) hypothetical API.
>
> Something like 
>       int xmlSetParserEncoding(xmlParserCtxPtr ctxt,
>                               const char *encoding);
> would be nice. (I initially thought that would be what xmlSwitchEncoding()
> was supposed to do, but it didn't quite work. And I'm afraid I don't really
> understand what the libxml-parserinternals page says on this function).

  xmlSwitchEncoding will put an iconv filer for this encoding between your
source and the parser, more precisely a encoder from this encoding to
UTF8 

> Perhaps even a shorthand like
>       xmlDocPtr xmlParseFileWithEncoding(const char *filename,
>                                          const char *default_encoding);
>  (with default_encoding == NULL means "do like xmlParseFile() did") could be
> useful (well, in my case, it certainly would).
>
> >   this could be easilly added.
>
> That would definitely be helpful !

 in the meantime use xmlSwitchEncoding().

Daniel

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