Re: [xml] Using wchar_t string with libxml2.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:05:10AM +0000, Arthur_Yarwood scee net wrote:
> How should I be passing my wide strings into these functions? I could just 
> convert them to char strings, but I could loose data. Are the any other 
> issues I should be concerned about to ensure my xml is valid? e.g.  what 
> encoding standard should I use? UTF-16?

  You must convert your wide strings into UTF-8 strings before passing them
to the libxml2 API. I think 
    http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html#internal
is clear about that. If not I take patches to make this clearer.

Daniel

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