Re: Character Problem
I figured this out because I had the same problem as you a couple of years
ago. Most of the parsers assume that the text is 8 bit unless the encoding
is set. I could not figure out a way with Xerces to set the encoding so I
just forced it into the string using a known 16 bit type and that made it
work.
If you compile your application as Unicode then WriteString from CStdioFile
should also write unicode strings out so I don't know what's up with that.
Could be that the XML parser is still looking at the encoding setting
regardless of the character type??? I haven't used MSXML much so I don't
know that much about it.
My experience with Xerces was that if the string I was sending to the parser
was Unicode it recognized that somehow even though it didn't have a BOM. We
also ended up compiling a wide char version of Xerces using the w_char as
type thing since that's what VS 2005 seems to put in the project by default
so I don't know if that did something either.
You're right... this stuff is mysterious.
Tom
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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Tom,
I have a question. I searched around and saw that the reason I have to
specify ISO8859-1 is because XML by default assumes that the text is
Unicode.
Unicode is a gray area for me. While I was doing the test app (the code I
posted earlier), I specified that the project is unicode. And I thought
that File.WriteString(_T("Some Text")); would output unicode!
What am I missing here?
AliR.
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