Re: Accented characters making XML::Parse choke?

On 10 Sep 2002, Joe Drew wrote:

>>From an e-mail Issac Richards sent to mythtv-dev (and forwarded to me):
>
>"error is because the perl XML parser no longer seems to return
>everything in UTF-8 like it used to, instead converting things
>automatically to ISO-9660-1.

Aargh!  I wrote the code based on the assurance given in the
documentation that everything is always normalized to UTF-8.  There is
a value for 'encoding' returned from read_data(), but my documenation
says 'this will always be UTF-8'.  That might have to change.

>Seems it might be a bug in perl 5.8, or maybe in one of the libxml
>perl modules now in Debian.

It sounds like not a bug but new behaviour.  Not a change I welcome
(my attitude is UTF-8 or ASCII everything, and the sooner Latin-1 dies
the better), but I'll have to make the code work with it.

All I need to know is how to determine what encoding the XML parser
has chosen.  XML::Twig doesn't provide an interface for that, its docs
just say that data is always UTF-8.  Probably XML::Twig's docs also
date from the time when XML parsing didn't try to keep the input
encoding.

-- 
Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>