Stefan Behnel wrote:
Hi,
Bill Janssen wrote:
Well, what did you expect? That it magically transmogrifies your non-ASCII
data into plain ASCII data?
Yep. And there's no reason I can see why it can't do exactly that. I
think the "encoding" argument should either be removed, or made to
work.
That's why I asked if you tried other encodings. Obviously, you only tried
"UTF-8" and "ASCII". There's tons of other encodings out there, and I bet they
work just fine - as does "ASCII" (for ASCII data, that is).
Stefan
I suspect there's a certain amount of unarticulated assumptions on both
sides of this exchange. I'm guessing that Bill might be thinking
something like: "it's possible to represent any Unicode character in XML
as &#<code-position-for character>"; and was hoping that the method
would do just that for the non-ASCII characters if he asks for ASCII
encoding. Stefan is (if he even realizes that Bill might be thinking
this) himself possibly thinking "no way is the method going to do that
much work for the caller." Of course, I realize that it's always risky
trying to guess what people are thinking, but I throw this out as a
possibility in the hopes that, if I turn out to be right for even just
one side of the exchange, this might help clear the air a little bit. :-)
--
Bob Kline
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