Re: [xml] character conversion

[Tomas By <tomas basun net>]

Hi,

On 2017-03-29 20:47, Eric S. Eberhard wrote:
> How much of this do you need to do -- e.g. does it need to be super
> efficient or just crop up?

I need to produce output in CP 850. Efficiency not important.


>  Your XML node starts as UTF-8 I believe
> and not optional.
>
> I "think" that the only difference has to do with CR/LF issues ...

No, all the non-ASCII chars (including 1-31) are different.


> The answer is -- there is no built-in to do what you want.

Actually, I am pretty sure now the problem is that 
xmlFindCharEncodingHandler() is buggy.


>  But you will probably have to decide these things and do it
> ... and share it with us!

Yes, I will call libiconv directly instead of through libxml2.

/Tomas