Re: need help withXMLHTTPreq and parsing response

jason pollard wrote:
> I just was looking for some rhyme or reason how
> it's being converted, or why some bytes are converted to unicode, so that I
> can convert back to bytes (acutally ints < 255). 

Ah. Well, I mentioned that the data is apparently interpreted as 
windows-1252, did I not? Just translate it back.

See, for example, the table at 
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx

>  Could someone post a link
> to the relevant source code?  I took a look at the Mozilla repository, but
> I'm not fluent in C so it didn't help at all.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/xmlextras/base/src/nsXMLHttpRequest.cpp#520 
is where XMLHttpRequest converts the server data to unicode. Looks like 
all it does is get the charset from the HTTP response header, falling 
back to UTF-8.

Although there's a harder case when there actually is an XML document 
object; I'm not sure how the charset detection happens then.