Re: [xml] Korean Encoding

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:22:46AM +0530, Manish Padmajan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a xml file with Korean encoding = "ks_c_5601-1987"

 iconv doesn't seems to know about that encoding or at least not under
that name:
  paphio:~ -> iconv -l | grep 5601
  paphio:~ -> iconv -l | grep 1987
  ISO_8859-1:1987//
  ISO_8859-2:1987//
  ISO_8859-6:1987//
  ISO_8859-7:1987//
  paphio:~ ->

> I am  using  libxml functions xmlParseFile() & xmlReadFile() in my code.
> Whenever I pass the xml file having Korean encoding to these functions, both
> these functions fail.
>
> What is the correct encoding that I should use for Korean language?

I don't know, the right approach depends on a number of things. Possibly it
the encoding string which is not the canonical one, in that case you can
register an alias to the name known by iconv:
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#xmlAddEncodingAlias
If this is really an encoding not supported by iconv you can add your
own support for it:
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#xmlRegisterCharEncodingHandler
the structure includes the name and conversion functions to/from UTF-8
that you must provide.
Last case, if you are generating those documents, there is a number of 
different potential encoding available. I'm not a specialist at all, you
should check with whoever will need to parse the data:
  paphio:~ -> iconv -l | grep -i ks
  BIG5-HKSCS//
  BIG5HKSCS//
  CSKSC5636//
  KSC5636//
  paphio:~ -> iconv -l | grep -i kr
  CSEUCKR//
  CSISO2022KR//
  EUC-KR//
  EUCKR//
  ISO-2022-KR//
  ISO646-KR//
  ISO2022KR//
  MACUKRAINIAN//
  paphio:~ ->

Daniel

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