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

[Emmanuel <emmanuel satimage-software com>]

At 8:38 AM +0530 12/16/05, 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?

FWIW, with the implementation of libxml2 into XMLLib (Scripting 
Addition for AppleScript), saving a XML which includes c39f does save 
that same pattern (that on our macs with can read as ASCII "?ü"), not 
a replacement character.

Emmanuel