[Expat-discuss] (no subject)

[Karl Waclawek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark" <11mjazbdg02 at sneakemail.com>
To: <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:07 PM


> Hi,
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> [expat 1.95.6]
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> I have an XML file which uses iso-8859-1 encoding. Therefore the
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> file begins with:
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>    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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> In the file I have some character data which includes an accented
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> character (u umlaut - byte 0xFC).  When I parse the file
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> the charater code gets translated (by expat) to two bytes (0xC3, 0xBC). I can
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> see this in my CharacterDataHandler function.
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> What I am doing wrong?  Do I have to preprocess the file to
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> change this to a character reference?

You are doing nothing wrong.
Expat processes your encoding, but does not report the
data to your handlers in the same encoding, but rather
in UTF-8 or UTF-16 Unicode. This is standard behaviour
for an XML parser.

Karl