Re: [xml] Encoding - from what to UTF8 ??

[Remy HAREL <rharel ext rd francetelecom com>]

Thanks Daniel, I gonna look iconv.
Don't matter, of course I use a serious OS...but not in a red hat flavour ;)

 Regards,

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Remy HAREL wrote:
>
> >  Yet I also use many others source files encoded with many differents 
> > encodings :
> >
> > iso-8859-X ( where X = 1, 2, 5, 6, 14, 15 )
> > cp1256
> > gb23xx
> > Koi8R
> > cpXXXX ( can't remember the exact name, but it corresponds to Russian ).
> >
> >  So, my question is "does libxml2 provide functions to convert a 
> > source text from one of these languages to UTF8, or there is a simple 
> > way to do that ?"
>
>
>   The answer is no. Libxml2 has hard coded support for UTF-8, UTF-16 and
> the iso-8859-x the 2 first ones being the only mandatory encodings an
> XML parser must support. For everything else it uses iconv() if found
> at compilation time.
>   The API you're looking at is iconv:
>     http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/iconv.h.html
> It's available on all serious OSes, and Igor ships a Win32 precompiled
> versions. The set of encoding supported might be platform dependant though
> and the quality of the converters may also be system dependant, but 
> that's the API to use. There is a free software implementation:
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
>
> Daniel

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