Re: [xml] XML and Unicode Determination

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:08:36PM -0600, Browder, Tom wrote:
> When using the DOM or text reader parsers I would like to know when they
> have found the first unicode character not in the ASCII range.  Is there
> any way to do so other than to use the internal function 'UTF8Toascii'
> on every xmlChar string I see?

  check the first byte of content you received with the high order bit
set, since all strings are UTF-8 internally.
  There is no way the parser can tell you when this happen because 
encoding conversion to UTF-8 are done block by block as a prior step to
parsing.

Daniel

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