Look at what the XMLFormatter stuff does. It uses the APIs you need, to
create transcoders.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: RE: DOMString and international characters
> How can I convert a C string into the XMLCh format. A code example would
be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> tx, deb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Roddey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: DOMString and international characters
>
>
> The simple transcode APIs work between the XMLCh format and the local code
> page. If you pass in data that is not in the local code page, then you
> should pass it in in XMLCh format. Changing your locale is probably not
the
> right answer because it might freak out other code running in the same
app,
> and its definitely not a very portable thing to do. The right thing is to
> get a transcoder for the encoding your info is in, and use that to
transcode
> it to XMLCh and pass that in to the parser.
>
> One thing that DOM perhaps should do is to accept an encoding name for
what
> takes in (and spitsout ) char* data as, and not always work in the local
> code page, though it would by default. Each DOM document would just allow
> you to tell it what encoding you want to get non-XMLCh data into it and
out
> of it, and create a transcoder internally for this work. If you don't say,
> then it will default to the local code page, which is convenient for many
> casual apps using the DOM. An advantage to this (which setting the locale
> won't do) is to allow you get data into/outof a DOM in multiple encodings
in
> the same app if that was ever needed (which it might in say an XML based
> server.)
>
> --------------------------
> Dean Roddey
> The CIDLib C++ Frameworks
> Charmed Quark Software
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.charmedquark.com
>
> "Why put off until tomorrow what you can
> put off until the day after tomorrow?"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Debra Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Juergen Hermann'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:55 AM
> Subject: RE: DOMString and international characters
>
>
> > Thanks J�rgen. I used setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
> > It returns "en_US"
> >
> > It's simple, but can you explain why this works?
> >
> > deb
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Juergen Hermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:26 PM
> > To: Debra Kelly; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: DOMString and international characters
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 21 May 2001 17:02:32 -0400, Debra Kelly wrote:
> >
> > >Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Simple: call setlocale() and set your LANG to de_DE. And have your input
> > document have an encoding="iso-8859-1".
> >
> >
> > Ciao, J�rgen
> >
> >
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