[xml] Question about character encoding support

[jwert ilstechnology com]

List,

We are using libxml-2.6.32 on VxWorks
6.4.  It is far from being a posix system.  I compiled libxml2
without too many issues, but porting iconv is proving to be a lot more
difficult.  What options do I have for supporting various character
encodings when parsing XML?  98% of our customers use UTF-8 encoding,
but I don't want to limit them if I don't have to.  For other parts
of our product, I have written my own layer to convert between character
sets.

What is the default behavior for libxml2
if it doesn't have iconv available?

Thanks,

Jim Wert Jr.

JWert ILSTechnology com