[xml] convert funny chars to char entites?
Martin v. Loewis
martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 16 01:39:12 EDT 2002
":B nerdy" <thoa0025 at mail.usyd.edu.au> writes:
> ive got a string "Il Est Né" and i want to put it into a xml document
>
> is there a quick and easy way to conver the funny characters to char
> entities so i can store them?
I recommend you properly declare the encoding of the document, e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
(assuming the é is meant to be encoded in Latin-1).
XML does not define external entities for non-ASCII characters, so you
would have to create a DTD first if you want them.
Regards,
Martin
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