Re: [xml] xsltproc --stringparam and national chars

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:18:53PM +0200, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> Hi Daniel, Jens, All,
>
> Daniel responded to Jens
> >   No locale are evil, unportable, and the wrong solution to
> > a problem it didn't managed to solve correctly. I don't want any
> > dependancy to the locale in the libxml/libxslt code at all.
>
> Sorry to be with the dissidents this time, but I think you don't see the 
> point here:
>
> It's right to keep libxml2 locale-free
>
> But it may be a good idea to use locales for the command line utilities.
> (In case of strong allergic reactions to locales, this may be hidden by 
> giving the command line parameters to some function system2utf8 and 
> plug in the locales there, which would also allow to call Win32 specific 
> i18n functions)

  Hum, okay, I'm allergic to locale. I have to agree that keeping the dependancy
at the application level is a fine solution. I would take patches 
for xsltproc or testXPath.c 

Daniel

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