Re: Accented characters making XML::Parse choke?

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Joe Drew wrote:

>>I strongly suspect a badly formed input file.
>
>I'm running tv_grab_na and then tv_sort. The output of tv_grab_na has as
>its declaration:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>

Sounds okay, I know that tv_grab_na outputs Latin-1 characters.

>and once it is put through tv_sort
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Hmm.  That is the expected behaviour, and it's because Perl's
XML::Parser module always converts everything to UTF-8 on input.

>If no conversions are done on the data I can see that this would
>lead to a problem.

Yes.  But the XML parsing ought to convert to UTF-8 on input, so there
couldn't be any Latin-1 characters left to output again.

>I will be able to give you an example of this, if you need one,
>later today when I get home.

Yes please.  Are you using the 0.5 release or the CVS head?

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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>