Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: base64 to the rescue!

Author:Fredrik Lundh
Posted:1/19/1999; 10:26:41 AM
Topic:WDDX Annotated DTD
Msg #:2249 (In response to 2232)
Prev/Next:2248 / 2250

XML fully supports Unicode and a bunch of other character sets, so representing European characters is no problem at all on the XML level -- no need to invent weird tags for that purpose.

I guess that what you describe as "correctly" means that Frontier doesn't handle this at all -- it just passes ISO Latin 1 (or ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1, to be specific) without specifying an encoding in the XML header. While XP correctly defaults to UTF-8 (an 8-bit Unicode encoding) in that case.

Try modifying the XML header to include encoding='ISO-8859-1' before passing it to XP.

Don't know if the Userland folks are working on Unicode support for future Frontier versions, but they probably should ;-)

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