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RE: problem adding new encoding to perl XML::Parser

• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: problem adding new encoding to perl XML::Parser
• From: "Daben Liu" <dliu@b...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:24:14 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <000e01c24ead$18f76390$fe193044@tbp1>

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, those encodings are built-in in expat. However, there are 
other encodings, such as big5 and several version of Japanese 
encodings, are also supported with the perl XML::Parser I got 
from CPAN. 

Does this mean I have to do more than just generate a .enc file? 
Do I need to write a handler by myself? This could be strange if 
it IS required. GB2312 is widely used for Chinese characters and 
works fine under win32 environment. 

Daben


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@c...]
> Sent: 2002?8?28? 12:08
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  problem adding new encoding to perl XML::Parser
> 
> 
> [Daben Liu]l-dev] problem adding new encoding to perl XML::Parser
> 
> 
> > The XML::Parser installed from CPAN does not come with a
> > GB2312 encoding support. However, I was not able to add
> > the support as instructed by the XML::Encoding package.
>  ...
> > I run this script with a well-formed xml file having a head line
> > as: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="GB2312"?>
> >
> > Following error occurs:
> >
> > unknown encoding at line 1, column 30, byte 30 at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 185
> >
> > Changing the encoding to other supported ones seem to work without error.
> > I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing in the process.
> >
> 
> Just because perl supports an encoding does not mean that the xml parser
> does.  expat is written in C, not perl.  According to the article by Clark
> Cooper on xml.com (but back in 1999)
> 
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/09/expat/index.html
> 
> the supported encodings are utf-8, utf-16, iso-8859-1, and US-ASCII.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom P
> 
> 
> 
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