Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Thu, Aug 01, 2002, à 12:06:51PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>> > Le Thu, Aug 01, 2002, à 10:19:24AM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>> > 
>> > 
>> >> Well, libxml2 doesn't seem to be doing it for Dia now.  I don't know
>> >> what's wrong with it.
>> > 
>> > libxml2 does the right thing. If you don't have an encoding spec in
>> > the header of an XML file, then it's UTF-8. If you pass UTF-8 data to
>> > libxml and don't ask for another encoding spec, you'll get an UTF-8
>> > header. This is within spec.
>> 
>> Then explain to me why it thinks that the attached diagram is UTF-8 and
>> misparses the latin1 chars.  Either the encoding I typed in is illegal,
>> in which case it should give at least a warning, or something deeper is
>> wrong.
> 
> 
> I don't have an explanation. I have just a simple fact: I CVS updated,
> compiled, loaded your file. Save for the ugly font (my Pango is
> ill-configured, I need to clear the defoma caches I think), I think the
> contents match what you've typed there (you can see the window in the
> lower right corner of the screenshot I sent you privately).

Arrrr, my bad.  I forgot that my Emacs now does UTF-8 by default, so those
were UFT-8 things in a supposed latin-1 diagram.  Once I made them actual
latin-1, they worked.  (Though I updated to libxml1.23 at the same time,
which might or might not have helped.)  I'm guessing something in the mail
transport made it correct Latin-1 on your side, too.

-Lars

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