Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:53:34 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Message-ID: <20020411125429.C73703F30@bast.unixathome.org> References: <a93ugk$155s$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote
> Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:
>
> > Given that I'm trying to process the cvs-all messages into XML documents
> > (using the perl module XML::Writer which does not do any encoding beyond
> > characters such as >, <, etc), any suggestions as to how to deal with such
> > characters? I've been looking through cpan but I suspect I'm using the
> > wrong search criteria ("encoding"). Any clues?
>
> Well what encoding do your XML documents use?
It was UTF-8. Some months ago it changed to ISO-8859-1 when I first
encountered
this type of issue (back then it was Lyngb<F8>l).
> I guess your basic situation is that you are getting unknown
> characters in an unknown encoding. You then have to manually figure
> out what this is, e.g. you asked here and I'm telling you it's
> character U+00E4. You can now store this in your encoding of choice.
Given that the incoming characters are supposed to be ISO-8859-1 (which is
what CVS stores (see Tony's message), I'm quite sure the best thing to do
is
just ignore the non-standard characters (i.e. by removing them).
What's your view on that approach?
p.s. I caught your message by reading the archives, I wasn't subscribed
to -chat at the time but I am now.
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Dan Langille
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