Re: Problem with swedish characters


Subject: Re: Problem with swedish characters
From: Jens Utbult (jens@roxen.com)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 17:32:46 CST


On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 22:43, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> According to Jens Utbult <jens@roxen.com>:
>
> > I'm trying to use Abisource as a wysiwyg-editor together with a
> > xml-based WCM-system. The problem I have is that abiword does not save
> > swedish characters as real characters. Instead they are encoded as
> > something completely different. Since I'm not using abiword to view the
> > actual xml-file this is a problem to me. Is there any way of forcing
> > abiword to save the swedish characters as true swedish characters?
>
> There is no way to do so, ie saving iso-8859-1 chars as is, using an 8bits
> encoding.
>
> I'm sorry, but you'll have to decode the AbiWord XML in its integrity. BTW?
> this is valid XML and most XML parsers offer facilities for that.
>

For some reason the XSLT-parser I'm using does not convert the UTF8
coded data to iso-8859-1 (I have no idea if it's supposed to do so
though). I solved it by writing a module that parses the content before
sending the finished web page to the client.

/jens

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