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Re: encoding problem fixed

  • From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@j...>
  • To: "David Brownell" <david-b@p...>, "John Cowan" <cowan@l...>, "XML Dev" <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:15:41 +0800

Re: encoding problem fixed
> Actually, that's not correct either.  My general advice is to pass a
> URI to the parser -- which is required to do the correct thing!
[..]
> In fact, my own basic guidance is never to pass any sort of I/O stream
> (InputStream -or- Reader!) to the parser; let the parser work from the
> URI, if at all possible.  It's normally quite possible, and it's a lot
> less likely to handle the encodings wrong than application code!!

Hence James Clark's solution (make a URI out of the filename), which I now
use. There's a moral here and those of you who know James Clark probably
learnt it a long time ago :-)

James Tauber




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