Re: [xml] Follow-up: Tips for correct encoding handling when building documents from scratch?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:09:51PM +0100, Henke, Markus wrote:
> If i got it right, xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant() consumes UTF-8 encoded
> character buffer (as any libxml internals), allthough it seems to work
> also for iso-8859-1, but i'm not shure about that.

  No it doesn't, it is not intended to process non UTF-8

> Now we come to the root of the matter: Is it mandatory to do the
> character conversion to UTF-8 on application level, something along

  I have said it once, I have said it twice, I have pointed you at
the docs stating it. It is mandatory to make that conversion
at the application level. I won't repeat it again, I'm starting to
get fed up, because you always repeat the same questions, and apparently
don't dare looking at the API, code, docs or answers. It's now your
4th mail on this exact same topic, I have no other answer to make.

> Or is it possible to use the (default/extended) libxml encoding support,
> best while constructing the new nodes?

  No it is NOT possible. You can use the encoding API to convert *strings*
but you will have to make those calls in *your* application code.

Daniel

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