Comments on: Beating down the XML

By: Liyang HU

Liyang HU — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:17:47 +0000

My solution is to deny the existence of anything other than UTF-8.

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:37:34 +0000

Encodings cause so many fun problems because most don’t contain any self-identification. Do you have any good way to tell the difference between ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-*, or KOI8? What about EUC-JP and EUC-KR?

I know people who went searching for bugs in ftp after a data transfer from Korea to Japan “was corrupted” :-)

By: Perl’s XML::Twig — バカな火星人

Perl’s XML::Twig — バカな火星人 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:24:24 +0000

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By: mirod

mirod — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:40:15 +0000

UTF-8, how banal! And no, not everyone’s data is in Unicode. And actually, text that could be encoded in plain latin 1 is often more of a pain to deal with than shift-JIS and the likes, at least in Perl.
I can always generate shift-JIS, through vim digraphs, then iconv, although it’s a write-only process as I can’t read Japanese, I was just looking for a bit of real data. It doesn’t matterthat much though, I’ll be talking about encodings at the Italian Perl Workshop first.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:47 +0000

My XML document is encoded in Unicode UTF-8. Isn’t everyone’s? :-)

It does contain Japanese text, though.

By: Quim

Quim — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:24:23 +0000

Free the code! :)

erm.. some examples on how you did it would be appreciated, at least for some of us who do not have any experience with Haskell at all, but for whom being able to see both implementations side-by-side would be great!

By: mirod

mirod — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:07:39 +0000

I am in the process of writing a howto about XML::Twig and encodings, could you tell me in which encoding the document is (hoping for something exotic here ;–).

Thanks