Re: [xml] Res: Help with encoding

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:40:26PM -0700, Elenice wrote:
> i already read this page, but, unfortnatly i didin't understand about encoding iso-8859-1, becouse this is 
> the encoding that i'm using, and i set all the variables of my OS to this encoding iso-8859-1, and a 
> thought that i would get took back the original character that was sent in the xml.

  No, libxml2 APIs are using UTF-8, the reasons are explained in that page.
You can convert the strings to another encoding if needed but libxml2 won't
do that by itself. Function to convert from UTF-8 to ISO 8859 1 is here
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#UTF8Toisolat1

Daniel

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