[XML-SIG] Perl and character encodings

[Paul Prescod]

Thought this might be of interest:

> Version 2.17 of XML::Parser has been uploaded to CPAN. With this version,
> the entire API of James Clark's expat library is accessible from perl.
> 
> The major new feature is access to character set encodings other than
> expat's built-in set (UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII). This is done
> through binary character encoding maps appearing in the pathlist
> represented by @XML::Parser::Expat::Encoding_Path. The following encoding
> maps come with this distribution and require no further action on the part
> of the user, i.e. if expat comes across the encoding, it will just use it
> without user intervention:
> 
> Big5
> ISO-8859-2
> ISO-8859-3
> ISO-8859-4
> ISO-8859-5
> ISO-8859-7
> ISO-8859-8
> ISO-8859-9
> Shift_JIS
> windows-1250
> 
> Other maps may be created and installed in the encoding search path by
> using the tools in the newly released XML::Encoding distribution.

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> Subject: Re: XML::Parser Version 2.17 has been uploaded to CPAN
> From: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:53:48 +0900
> X-Message-Number: 4
> 
> I tried an XML document in Shift_JIS and an equivalent document in UTF-16.  
> XML::Parser created exactly the same result.  Great work!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Makoto
>  
> Fuji Xerox Information Systems


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