thank you very much! altho i didnt understand what you said :P im hoping that after reading those resourses you gave me i will be more prepared :D
Thanks On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Kuba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > You should read xml tutorial available here: > http://xmlsoft.org/tutorial/xmltutorial.pdf > > Starting at 8th page there is a chapter called Encoding Conversion. > > If tutorial wouldn't help msg me/us. > > Futhermore there are plenty of resources about unicode (utf8/16/32). In > very short, you can treat utf8 as way of coding chars in 1 byte-multiple > convention. Chars most freqeuntly used are stored in less amount of bytes > than less frequently used. There coding codes could be done by Huffman > coding, where there is no character, which coding is the same as prefix of > less frequently used character. In utf8 you are strongly using CODE PAGEs. > > Helpful resources: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#c<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/unicode.html#c> > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF > > > Best regards, > James > > > Carlos basura pisze: > >> HI! >> >> im very new to xmllib, utf8 in C. >> im writing a program that will read and write a xml formated config file >> for other app. >> im my application, i use char * all over the place, except on the >> functions that read from a xmlreader, since the return value of this >> functions is xmlChar >> >> now, if the library has this special type, its because is needed. is just >> that i dont get it. >> >> some people at ##C in freenode told me to read about iconv, but it got me >> more confused .... >> >> so i ask here. should i use xmlChar all arround my app? >> should i use a "convert" function? then how is it called? >> >> if you really want to look at it, im hosting my little project it in >> github >> >> http://github.com/broli/mkixl >> >> warning, the code is ugly as hell, im not only new to xml, but pretty much >> to C >> any help on the matter will be greatly apreciated >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml >> >> > >
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