Re: [xml] Encoding problems building document from scratch

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:39:15PM +0100, Henke, Markus wrote:
> And what's the correct way to set an encoding for a new document?

  set doc->encoding

> >   You need to convert first the string to UTF8. There is a function
> > exported from encoding.h to do IsoLatin1 to UTF8 encoding.
>
> Hum, that's of course an option.

  No it's the only option. libxml2 API strings are UTF8 encoded, there
is no way around this. If you have a requirement for another encoding,
encapsulate libxml2 calls with them. Having libxml2 expose incoherent
API is not needed (there is enough of them), there is also a performance
issue when delegating charset conversions to libxml2.

Daniel

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