Re: [xml] Character encodng cleanup

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:19:13AM +0200, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I've found (unfortunately) another use of the deemed-to-be-obsolete
> charset field:
>
> In parserInternals.c, HTMLparser.c and DOCBparser.c, when an
> invalid UTF-8 encoding is detected, ctxt->charset is set to
> XML_CHAR_ENCODING_8859_1.
>
> Given that this would indicate 8859-1 encoding of the in-memory
> strings (as leading researchers tend to believe), this doesn't seem
> to be that useful.
>
> Do you have any test case where this does anything good?

  I can't think of any, but I don't see why leaving it there would be
a problem either.
  I think there is another use in the XInclude module.

Daniel

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