Re: [xml] Arabic ISO-8859-6 in XML ?

[Pavel Stehule <stehule kix fsv cvut cz>]

I have this problem too with iso-8859-2
Pavel Stehule
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Genty Jean-Paul wrote:

>   Hi
>
>   I have a little problem using Arabic charset ISO-8859-6 with libxml. ( 
> iconv 1.7, libxml2-2.4.16 )
> My purpose is to embend some Arabic text ( unfortunately not UNICODE ) in 
> XML, transport my XML elsewhere, and retrieve
> my Arabic text.
> Here's my little test.
>
>       xmlDocPtr pDoc;    // my XML tree
>       xmlChar *strChaineXml;
>       int iSize;
>       xmlChar szArabic[6]; // an arabic string
>       
>       szArabic[0] = 0xD6; // I fill it with the letter Da, which code is 0xD6 ( 
> 214 )
>       szArabic[1] = 0xD6; // I usually use a Windows 98 arabic to build a file 
> but it's simpler for the test using directly a buffer
>       szArabic[2] = 0xD6; // you can check ISO-8859-6 at 
> http://www.langbox.com/codeset/iso8859-6.html
>       szArabic[3] = 0x00;
>       
>       LIBXML_TEST_VERSION;
>       xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0);
>       pDoc = xmlNewDoc((const xmlChar *)"1.0");
>       pDoc->children = xmlNewDocNode(pDoc, NULL, (const xmlChar *) "test",
>               NULL);
>       xmlSetProp(pDoc->children,(const xmlChar *)"object",(const xmlChar *)"users");
>       
>       pUsersNode = xmlNewChild(pDoc->children, NULL, (const xmlChar *) "name",
>               (const xmlChar *)szArabic);
>       
>       /*********  Here my XML tree is build. after that I try to dump it *********/
>
> First try:
>       xmlDocDumpMemoryEnc(pDoc, &strChaineXml, &iSize, "ISO-8859-6" );
>       I obtain this message:
>
> output conversion failed due to conv error
> Bytes: 0xD6 0xD6 0xD6 0x3C
> xmlOutputBufferFlush: encoder error
>
> Seconf try:
>       xmlDocDumpMemoryEnc(pDoc, &strChaineXml, &iSize, "UTF-8" );
>       No error so I continue, trying to rebuild my tree
>       
>       pDoc = xmlParseMemory((const char *)strChaineXml, iSize);
>       I obtain the message
>
> Entity: line 2: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
> <test object="users"><name>+++</name></test>
>       
>       Wich is rigth, after all ...
>
>   So my question is : what do I do wrong, and is there a mean to do what I 
> wish to do ( see the message's top ) ?
>
>   Cheers and  Thanks  !!
>
>    Jean-Paul
>
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