Re: [xml] Question about UTF-8 output / character references

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:55:48AM +0100, Geert Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm sorry if this may be a newbie question.. I'm serializing an xml 
> document using xmlSaveDoc() and I'm using utf-8 output encoding. It 
> seems that non-ascii unicode characters are always saved as xml 
> character references, not as utf-8 encoded characters. So for example, 
> an euro sign is alway output as &#20AC; and never the three bytes \xe2, 
> \x82, \xac.

  hum strange... it may depends where the characters are located too.

> Is this correct? When I study the source it seems that 
> xmlEscapeEntities() always outputs character references. The comment 
> near the top of the function seems to indicate however that the function 
> is only used when there is no encoding. Is this still true?

  Does your document hold a doc->encoding ?

Daniel

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