Here's some findings and suggestions: A good idea would be to use the ACCEPT-CHARSET attribute of the FORM element control what charset should be uses. e.g. <FORM ACCEPT-CHARSET=%Charsets> Converting to UTF-8 automatically isn't a good solution because neither Internet Explorer nor Navigator supports ACCEPT-CHARSET="UTF-8". Which suggest for defaulting to ISO-8859-1 or the CHARSET used by: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=CHARSET">. [Patch files for UTF-8 edit files for XML Document included] The problem with <META charset="UTF-8"> is that Netscape doesn't handle it to well. Internet Explorer handles it just fine. (Magnus original example document works great with <META charset="UTF-8"> and Internet Explorer, Netscape almost handles it.) The problems found in Netscape also indicates that XML Documents should default to ISO-8859-1 to work properly. At least for now. Regards, Johan Carlsson
Looks like the XML generation code doesn't like non-UTF encodings, and converts any non-UTF characters back to UTF-8 (which is what the ugly noise you quoted is). This isn't entirely _incorrect_ -- technically, the document's contents is still the same as what you put in -- but it certainly isn't _right_.
Alexander Staubo mailto:alex@mop.no http://www.mop.no/~alex/
I'm not much of an expert on character sets, but the default character encoding in XML is UTF-8, not ISO 8859 as with HTML. Therefore, entering ISO characters will not translate correctly, and this might account for your problems.
To specify that the document contents is encoded in ISO 8859-1 (ie., ISO Latin 1), modify the document heading to say:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
Well... I add that into the document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <faq> <entry> <test>Långt svårt öppningshål</test> </entry> </faq>
Then I hit "Change", and the saved version will look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <faq> <entry> <test>Långt och svårt öppningshål</test> </entry> </faq>
Encoding is removed, and I cant say the text is what I want it to be :-P
Time to buy a XML-book... or maybe it is a bug? I dont know.
/Magnus Heino
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