[ expat-Bugs-481609 ] Wrong umlauts after parsing

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Bugs item #481609, was opened at 2001-11-14 00:33
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Category: XML::Parser (Perl module)
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Thomas Frings (frings)
Assigned to: Clark Cooper (coopercc)
Summary: Wrong umlauts after parsing

Initial Comment:
Parsing a xml-file that contains german umlauts like 
ä ö ü or their encoding like ä ä or ü
results in 'C$' (instead of 'ä'), 'C<' (instead of 'ü') 
or  'C6' (instead of 'ö').

What's going wrong? 

System: Solaris 2.8
        expat 1.95.2
        XML-Parser 2.30

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Comment By: Simon Gordon (si_gordon)
Date: 2001-11-14 16:03

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I believe this is UTF-8. Expat always outputs in UTF-8 
rather than either (a) what you want or (b) what the XML 
encoding is set to.

I have long-held the belief that this is a bug even though 
the relese notes for 1.95 documented this fact. I had to 
patch my version to output ISO-8859-1 for exactly the same 
reason - I needed umlauted characters in ISO, not UTF-8.

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