RE: [xml] French character encoding problem

["Fred Fung" <fred fung versaterm com>]

Daniel,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I already tried "ISO-8859-1" (and just tried again after reading your reply) and I still get the same result.

Already read the encoding.html page a few times. According to this page, does that mean that by specifying 
encoding to be ISO-8859-1, one can put "Ã" in the xml file ? What about if they choose to generate Ç 
instead of the character ? I actually just tried putting "Ã" in the xml file with encoding ISO-8859-1. 
xmlNodeGetContent() still returns "Ãî" instead.

Also, if xmllint is able to return the proper character, what am I missing that's causing xmlNodeGetContent() 
not ?



Regards,

Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:23 PM
To: Fred Fung
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] French character encoding problem

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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