Re: PingTool.py converts 8 bit characters into entities

Hi!

> So what they do: they decode the entity encoded &#XXX; to their
> ISO-8859-1 encoding and store that in their database. They return the
> decoded entity as a ISO-8859-1 character - without declaring their
> charset in the XML header!

So I have commited a fix for this problem. Ok, not a fix, as the duty to
produce that one belongs to Userland, but at least some workaround in
PyDS. I use mostly the same heuristic as in PyCS:

- try to parse the response with expat directly (using whatever header
and encoding is used in the response)
- if that works, fine, we have a result
- if it breaks, replace <?xml version="1.0"?> with <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="iso-8859-1"?> in the response and parse again with expat
- if that works, fine, we now have a result
- if it breaks, produce an exception

So this should work with normal XMLRPC implementations, as they usually
just work fine with UTF-8 and support encodings as should be. In the
case of weblogs.com, it will work too - it just needs to parse the stuff
twice, sometimes.

This is an ugly hack. But at least it works now. Kind of.

bye, Georg