Re: [xml] encoding fails

["Aron Stansvik" <elvstone gmail com>]

On 5/25/06, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net> wrote:
> * 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".

Ah. Right. Using Gmail so it showed it just fine.

Aron