I'm receiving an xml-page from the internet with the client of aserve.
The heading is <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>.
The page contains the string "München", which has umlaut u in it.
If I save the page as a text file and look at it with a simple text
editor, it looks ok.
Now I parse the page with s-xml, and the interseting string prints as
"München",
i.e. the umlaut u becomes tilde A plus one quarter. In the inspector
it looks the
same. I tried to bind *DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* for calling parse-xml-
string by
(let ((doc)
(stream::*DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* (list :utf-8 :EOL-
STYLE :CRLF)))
(setf doc (s-xml:parse-xml-string xml-page :output-type :xml-
struct)).
This doesn't change anything. Also, this is the same in ACL and LW,
mswin.
I'm afraid I understood nothing about encodings yet.
What can I do - can someone help me please ?
Thanks, Frank
(message (Hello 'franks)
(you :wrote :on '(31 Jan 2007 14:24:49 -0800))
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f> I'm receiving an xml-page from the internet with the client of aserve.
f> The heading is <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>.
f> The page contains the string "M�nchen", which has umlaut u in it.
f> If I save the page as a text file and look at it with a simple text
f> editor, it looks ok.
f> Now I parse the page with s-xml, and the interseting string prints as
f> "München",
f> i.e. the umlaut u becomes tilde A plus one quarter.
that's how utf-8 looks like in simple (e.g. latin-1) encoding.
f> In the inspector it looks the
f> same. I tried to bind *DEFAULT-EXTERNAL-FORMAT* for calling parse-xml-
f> string by
it's not xml-parser's problem.
you read UTF-8 encoded data from stream, you should somehow specify that
when you do that, so implementation will decode UTF-8 to it's internal
represenation. or you can read the data, and then transcode it.
xml-parser should handle that if it operates on raw bytes. but it's not --
you give it a lisp string, that is supposed to be already decoded -- lisp
string is not just bytes, it can be unicode string or whatever.
)
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