doc/xml.html (and, by implication, FAQ.html) added UTF-8 conversaion FAQ
2002-10-31 John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>
* doc/xml.html (and, by implication, FAQ.html)
added UTF-8 conversaion FAQ from Marcus Labib Iskander
diff --git a/doc/xml.html b/doc/xml.html
index e4113a2..e51f418 100644
--- a/doc/xml.html
+++ b/doc/xml.html
@@ -407,6 +407,13 @@
else xmlAddPrevSibling(doc->children, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
</pre>
</li>
+ <li>So what is this funky "xmlChar" used all the time?
+ <p>It is a null terminated sequence of utf-8 characters. And only utf-8! You
+ need to convert strings encoded in different ways to utf-8 before passing
+ them to the API. This can be accomplished with the iconv library for
+ instance.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li>etc ...</li>
</ol>