Re: [xslt] utf8 encoding and conversion

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 26.05.2004 13:23, Thomas Bopp wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> Sorry, if this is not the correct list for this question:
>
> I have a html document which I am parsing with libxml2 SAX parser.
> I am converting the document from iso-8859-1 to utf8 and then the parser 
> works fine.
> Unfortunately libxml fails to convert the utf8 code back to iso-8859-1. 
> Shouldnt this work
> since the orginal file is iso-8859-1 ? It works for most files ....
> The buggy file contains some entities like ” - maybe that is the 
> problem ?

I believe that is the problem. Whatever the entity is, it can be 
represented as a sequence of UTF-8 code units. The entity probably ends 
up converted to an UTF-8 character, means it does not remain an entity. 
Conversion back to ISO-8859-1 fails because this character does not 
exist in the target encoding.

Ciao,
Igor