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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:10:01AM +0200, Genty Jean-Paul wrote:
>   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
[...]
>       pUsersNode = xmlNewChild(pDoc->children, NULL, (const xmlChar *) "name",
>               (const xmlChar *)szArabic);
[...]
>   So my question is : what do I do wrong, and is there a mean to do what I 

  What you did wrong is to not read the documentation:
     http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

The internal representation is UTF8, adding a string to the document that
string MUST be UTF8 encoded. You must convert (using iconv for example)
your strings to UTF8 before adding it to the tree.

Daniel

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