[ python-Bugs-1767933 ] Badly formed XML using etree and utf-16

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Bugs item #1767933, was opened at 2007-08-05 08:01
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Category: XML
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: BugoK (bugok)
>Assigned to: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Summary: Badly formed XML using etree and utf-16

Initial Comment:
Hello,

The bug occurs when writing an XML file using the UTF-16 encoding.
The problem is that the etree encodes every string to utf-16 by itself - meaning, inserting the 0xfffe BOM before every string (tag, text, attribute name, etc.), causing a badly formed utf=16 strings.

A possible solution, which was offered by a co-worker of mine, was to use a utf-16 writer (from codecs.getwriter('utf-16') to write the file.

Best,

BugoK.


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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2007-08-06 22:54

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Fredrik, could you take a look at this?

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