Re: FW: [xml] Problem with encoding in libxml.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:38:44AM +0530, Arun S K (RBIN/EDM3) * wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I simply made the libxml parser to 
>   1. parse a file. (parse_file() in perl)
>   2. convert the obtained tree structure to a string again (toString())
>   3. Write back the string to another file.
>
> The input file was UTF-8 encoded. It had the character ß (Beeta) which when viewed in hex viewer was 
> showing the following hex values (c3 9f). But in the output file, this encoding is changed and replaced by 
> the character (df) which is the hex value for the extended ascii set character ß (beeta). I am attaching 
> the files as well.
>
> Is this a bug with libxml2 or there is something wrong from my side? How can this be avoided?

  Reproduce the problem with xmllint and I may consider this a bug in
libxml2. You are not using a libxml2 function call to do the serialization
and I have no idea what is the semantic of the toString() you are using !

Daniel

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