Re: [xml] encoding issue using libxml with swish-e

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 01:35, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> *** All libxml2 API is using UTF-8 character strings ***
>
> Your application and all all middle layers like swish-e must be willing and
> capable to accept and receive UTF-8 strings. Before sending these
> strings to be displayed by the GUI/OS, they must be converted again to
> the encoding the GUI/OS expects.

There are a couple of explanations of libxml's encoding behavior worth
reading:

http://www.xmlsoft.org/encoding.html
http://www.xmlsoft.org/tutorial/ar01s08.html

Cheers,
John
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