Re: [xml] character encodings

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 13:36 -0700, Fred Smith wrote:

> If My program is running on linux, this is fine as iconv on linux
> knows about encoding “windows-1252”. If my program is running on AIX
> 5.2L, it is NOT fine, as the iconv on AIX appears to not know about
> that charset.

When you generate your XML reply, why not encode any characters whose
values are 127 or higher into numberic character references to their
Unicode code points -- e.g. ⸐ or whatever?

Then you don't need iconv.

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Oops, too late, I'd already read the mail before I got to that.

If it's confidential you should NOT be posting it to a
public mailing list.  Get yourself a non-work email account if
you can't disable the stupid disclaimer.  Thanks!

Liam

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