Re: character conversion

Jason Viers <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:23:40 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 3/28/2017 23:10, Tomas By wrote:
> I have a "xmlNode*" that comes from a file, which is typically UTF-8 
> but could be (I assume) any other encoding supported by the installation.
> If it is a TEXT node, I want to get the content, as a string, in CP 850.

The content encoding of the file doesn't matter, when parsed libxml2 
stores everything internally as UTF-8.  Functions like xmlNodeGetContent 
will give you the content in UTF-8, which you can manually convert to CP 
850.