Re: [xml] A possible problem with libxml2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:00:00AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Now, I don't know whether it is legal to have gb2312 encoded text within
> an HTML tag, but it is commonplace. Its hard to specify font names,
> unless you do this, since Chinese fonts usually only have Chinese names.
> Specifying a font name in the current encoding of an HTML page works OK
> with current browsers. libxml coughs when it sees a Chinese font name,
> encoded in gb2312, within a gb2312 encoded page.

  Sorry I can't guess what the problem is.

> So what should happen? Whether or not the gb2312 font name is legal is
> largely irrelevant in the messy world of HTML. Right now, libxml is
> failing to handle a large number of real world Asian pages. Now I have
> found the source of the trouble I have tried some other Chinese HTML
> documents containing font selections, and they all give problems.

  provide an example, the problem and how it should be handled instead,
this way I can do something to fix it. Currently your bug report is clearly
insufficient to even guess where the problem is.

  thanks,

Daniel

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