Re: enabling utf8 encoding for sax parer XML::SAX::Expat

In order to Encode the file to the proper encoding, i'll need to open it 1st
and read the 1st line:
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> for e.g.

only then i could run Encode($filename) (not familiar with the syntax
yet...) right?

does it mean i need to close the file and reopen it? since i don't really
have control on the filehandle (using parse_uri..).



On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Robin Berjon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2009, at 13:41 , eyal edri wrote:
>
>>        • how can i tell the parser to open the xml in a certain encoding
>> (despite the sender fucked up and didn't add the magic numbers) ?
>>
>
> As Michael explained, it's not so much about magic numbers (unless you're
> in UTF-16 and the encoding isn't declared, but that really is orthogonal).
> If you want to parse a file, it really has to be in the right encoding in
> its entirety.
>
> If you're getting XML documents that are in encoding X and don't declare
> so, then I'd recommend using the Encode module to convert them from X to
> UTF-8, and then parse that without telling the parser anything specific.
>
> --
> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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Eyal Edri

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