Re: parse-xml: Parsing file with latin1

Ah, the most important word is missing.

Jochen Schneider <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm using Allegro 6.1 (modern, international, IDE, German locale.) I'm
> trying to parse an XML file which contains latin1 characters.
> 
> The parser seems to the umlauts in the file. Setting the "external

  The parser seems to _mind_ the umlauts. It swallows the first one
  and the char after it and then complains about non-matching tags.

> format" when opening the string doesn't help. It works when I read the
> file into a string and parse that. I saw some reference to UTF8 in the
> debugger and the parser implementation. Is that the non-changeable
> default encoding when the file is not in 16 bit unicode?
> 
> And no, I'm not getting this whole encoding thing.
> 
>         Jochen