Re: [xml] encoding tutorial draft

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:57, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> > > Feedback encouraged. Among other things, I've not explained (because I
> > > don't understand) the role of iconv in all this magic, and I've not
> > > given a definitive list of the encodings supported.
> >
> >   without iconv support libxml2 has native support only for the UTF8,
> > UTF16 and ISO-8859-1 encodings. If it has been compiled with iconv
> > it will use it to support all the set available from the iconv library
> > (which itself is dependant on the iconv implementation).
>
> I dare to believe that John needs more explanation, for he stated he is not 
> a programmer. :-)

Exactly, Igor! I'm a known danger when actually writing code, and
slightly less dangerous but still a high risk when trying to explain
code.

This is excellent explanation, which I will incorporate. I'm assuming
you saw nothing in the code itself that will lead libxml immigrants
astray?

Cheers,
John
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