Re: [xml] encoding fails

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Aron Stansvik wrote:
> On 5/25/06, boss gregerhaga net <boss gregerhaga net> wrote:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > <rss version="2.0">
> >    <channel>
> >       <title>Aftonbladet &#246;jesliv</title>
> >    </channel>
> > </rss>
> >
> > I try to extract the title element from the above. But the encoding is not
> > recognised. What i get is this:
> > Aftonbladet öjesliv
>
> What do you mean the encoding is not recognized? That looks like a
> perfectly valid result. &#246; is U+00F6 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH
> DIAERESIS.

This appears to be a defect in your mail user agent, the message you
reponded to was ISO-8859-1 encoded and had the o-umlaut encoded as two
octets (C3 B6, which is the proper UTF-8 sequence). The original problem
appears to the the usual "API gives UTF-8 but I expect something else".
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