RE: [Zope] Swedish characters and XMLDocument-1.0a4

20 Dec 1999


      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/
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-----Original Message-----
From: magnus@vuab.net [mailto:magnus@vuab.net]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 2:39 PM
To: Alexander Staubo
Cc: johanc@torped.se; amos@digicool.com; zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Swedish characters and XMLDocument-1.0a4
...
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>LÃ¥ngt och svÃ¥rt Ã¶ppningshÃ¥l</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