[xml] Re: Non-ASCII characters

[Dan Timis <timis rahul net>]

I found the answer to my question.  I needed to convert the characters 
with UTF8Toisolat1().

Sorry for wasting the bandwidth.

Dan Timis

p.s.  I meant ²

> From: Dan Timis <timis rahul net>
> Date: Sat Sep 20, 2003  9:54:36 PM US/Pacific
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: Non-ASCII characters
>
> I am trying to save internal data from an application to xml, then 
> later parse the xml to restore the internal data.  Some strings come 
> from external sources and I noticed that sometimes there are 
> characters above 0x7F.  In one instance, a string had two characters, 
> first 'x' then 0xB2, which is "superscript two" in other words "x 
> squared."
>
> When I save to xml I get:
>
> <string>x&#178</string>
>
> When I use SAX to retrieve the string I get "x" then I get 0xC2 0xB2.  
> I know very little about Unicode, but I found that "superscript two" 
> is 00B2 in the Unicode Latin-1 supplement.  What is C2B2?
>
> I fixed the problem by skipping the 0xC2 and appending the the 
> character that follows it to the string, but it feels like a bad hack. 
>  Is there a way to specify that I am working with 1-byte characters in 
> the full range 00-FF?  Is there another way to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Timis