Re: [xml] encoding

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:26:09AM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:26 +0200, Bar Gam wrote:
> > Hello
>
> Hi :)
>
> >  
> > If I try to parse a document encoded in iso-8859-8 - should it be
> > converted to UTF-8, or is it supported and handled by the parser on
> > the fly? If the content should be converted (and deconverted) - what
> > method should be used in this 
> > ?case
>
> Providing the document encoding is correctly specified and providing you
> have Iconv support compiled in, the conversion to UTF-8 will be done for
> you automatically as libxml2 parses the document.
>
> If the document encoding is not specified in the xml declaration at the
> top of the file (<?xml encoding="..."?>), there is a way to pass it in
> directly when using the libxml API -- this is needed because of the way
> HTTP documents have their encoding specified, for example. But I cannot
> remember the exact call off the top of my head.
>
> You can see if you have Iconv support available by looking at the output
> of 'xmllint --version'.

  If iconv is not present all the iso-8859-[1-15] are compiled in the library 
by default so unless a very specific setup the conversion will be supported.
Anyway if the encoding is not supported, per the spec it's a fatal error
and the parser fail immediately and deliver no data.

Daniel

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