Re: bookmark conversion problem

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 18:19, KUSANO Takayuki wrote:
> When Galeon HEAD starts up and detect an old bookmark file saved by
> Galeon 1, it can convert it to new format file (if user desired).
> 
> I try to convert Galeon 1 bookmark file (XBEL format) by this feature,
> but all entries in bookmark become corrupted.
> 
> I modifed gb_bookmark_set_fix_galeon1_mess_string() in
> bookmarks/bookmarks.c to address this problem.
> 
> When Galeon 1 save bookmark items to file, it passes UTF-8 encoded
> string to libxml1 APIs. libxml1 treats UTF-8 encoded strings as if
> they are encoded in ISO Latin-1, and split string every bytes and
> convert them to numerical entity references.
> 
> So, we can convert Galeon 1 bookmark to correct UTF-8 encoded file
> by perl like this.
>   perl -pe 's/&#(\d+);/pack("C",$1)/ge' < bookmarks.xbel > new-bookmarks.xbel
> 
> I tested attached patch by my bookmark file which contains Japanese
> strings, but I'm not sure this is the right way to do.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   KUSANO Takayuki <URL:http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/>
> 

Can you put this in bugzilla so we dont forget it ?
Thanks

Marco




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