Re: [xml] OS/390 compatibility (EBCDIC)

[Roumen Petrov <bugtrack roumenpetrov info>]

Hi, Alon,
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to compile on OS/390, it should work, right?
>
> I am getting:
> ---
> $ ../../dep/bin/xmllint --version
> ../../dep/bin/xmllint: using libxml version 20707
>     compiled with: Iconv ISO8859X
So far so good but what about iconv ?
Is it from gnu libc or external (standalone) from libiconv. The second 
didn't support EBCDIC{xxx}.

> $ ../../dep/bin/xmllint sample.xml
> sample.xml:1: parser error : encoding not supported EBCDIC
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ebcdic"?>

So if libiconv support EBCDIC then no idea.

Another point is that libxml contain some macros similar to IS_SPACE 
that check for ASCII codes and this may break something in library. o 
idea how to find all of them. May be with command like "grep -i 
space.*32" or "grep -i space.*20" and to look near to lines found for 
other macros.

> ^
> sample.xml:1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
> Bytes: 0xA7 0x94 0x93 0x40
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ebcdic"?>
> ---
>
> Can anyone help?

I could not help more.


> Thanks,
> Alon.

Roumen