Re: [xml] Unicode VS XML: Need help with char encoding in XML

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:43:47PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 20:07 +0000, Fred Smith wrote:
> > I imagine my problem is due to my own ignorance of how char encodings work and how libxml2 handles them, 
> > but I’m growing frustrated with my inability to figure it out so thought to beg advice from the list.
>
> >     snprintf (tststr, sizeof(tststr), "Test %c Test", 0xC9);
>
> You are generating something not valid as a Unicode text string in
> UTF-8, the default encoding.
>
> try, snprintf (tststr, sizeof(tststr), "Test %c%c Test", 0xC3, 0x89);

  reading the doc may help too
    http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

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>
> No. They are not confidential. You have sent them to a public archived
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> the "intended recipient". Please in future do not send confidential mail
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 thanks,

Daniel

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