Re: [xml] python, xml, utf8->iso-8859-2 problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:09:09PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > > element.newChild(None,"beta","¾lutý kùò")
>
> This string is in iso-8859-2 encoding. Conversion iso-8859-2 (latin2) to 
> utf8 is ok. I have problem with latin2->utf->latin2 conversion. In 
> documentation you write, so I can use iconv. What is mean? And so can I 
> use own conversion handler? But I didn't find any documentation about it 
> on internet. I have problem only with serialisation.

  You must use UTF8 encoded string for all tree operations. The way you
generate those strings is not libxml2 matter.

> in my sitecusyomize.py I have
>
> encoding="iso-8859-2"
> sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)

  This doesn't change anything. Libxml2 operations are defined on 
terms of UTF8 strings only, independantly of those settings.

Daniel

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