This is a pretty serious problem for non AS/400 platforms. Could we agree on
what to do about it, if anything? Here are the comments:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXISCPP-964
Henrik Nordberg [24/Apr/06 11:14 PM]
Nadir K. Amra wrote:
Henrik, I am not sure how you would do that on windows or linux, but I
assume it can be done. On the OS/400, the XML parser will honor whatever
the encoding is in the XML data that is returned.
This is parser dependent and platform-independent. And, of course, the
parser must honor the encoding specified. It is part of the XML standard.
I think on the other
platforms it is assumed to be in UTF-8
UTF-8 is the default encoding. But we specify it explicitly.
so I guess that answer for
non-OS/400 platforms is yes, the XML data must be in UTF-8 (or I think
consistent with UTF-8 such as ISO-8859-1, etc.)
Here is the real problem. ISO-8859-1 is NOT consistent with UTF-8. Only
ASCII is. And then only for characters up to 127.
I think this truly is a bug, except on OS/400, which is the only platform
that has special code in an #ifdef.
As it is now, users on other platforms must provide their own UTF-8
conversion. This, I think, is too much to ask of them, and most don't know
that they need to do so.
Can we simply use UTF-8 on all platforms, not just on OS/400?
- Henrik
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