Re: FN-FORUM: XML encoding problem

date posted 25th July 2005 19:10

On 25 Jul 2005 18:35:05 -0000, Dai Williams [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>=20
> I have now and it does seem to clear the errors, so thanks, however I am =
not
> sure I am clear why - the docs say this "Converts a string with ISO-8859-=
1
> characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1" but my brain sta=
rts
> to bleed around here.. So the encoding of the feed is UTF-8 but the
> character set is iso-8859-1. Is that legal? I really must get my head
> round these things some time...
>=20

The ever-reliable Joel has some entertaining things to say about
developer confusion over such issues:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

--=20
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