Re: [xml] French character encoding problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Fred Fung wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> We are using libxml version 2.0.0 on Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 2.4.9.
>  
> I have an xml file with the first line specifying the encoding scheme :
>  
>          <?xml version="1.0" encoding="LATIN1" ?>

  Uing "LATIN1" is a very bad idea, it is absolutely not portable
  encoding="ISO-8859-1" is the right way.

> and one of the text node in the file is the following :
>  
>          <FIRSTNAME>FRAN&#199;OIS</FIRSTNAME>

  Horror, uppercase tags !

>  
> After the document has been parsed via xmlParseFile( ) and xmlDocGetRootElement( ), a call to 
> xmlNodeGetContent( ) returns "FRANÃîOIS" (a strlen of 9) instead of "FRANÃOIS".
...
> Am I missing something in the C program to convert the encoded sequence to the origianl character ?

  Read the doc:
    http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

Daniel

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