revXML and UTF8

[Paul Dupuis]

This known bug is reading a UTF8 XML file, and I gather you are writing 
(or trying to write) a UTF8 XML file, but it may be related: 
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21320


On 4/10/2023 2:46 PM, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
> Nope, when I process the data without using the xml library, all
> characters display fine. The problem is really with revXML.
> There must be a trick for using revXML with UTF8 file format.
>
>
> Le 2023-04-10 07:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode a écrit :
>> Look up textEncode and textDecode in the dictionary. Text from or to a
>> file needs to be decoded or encoded since LC 7.
>>
>>
>> On 4/10/2023 4:07 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I have an xml file with lots of non-western characters
>>> (greek, arabic, japanese...). I need to convert these
>>> data into sql requests to insert into a DB.
>>> For each node, I need to pick only some attributes, so
>>> I wrote a script that :
>>> - opens the file as utf8
>>> - processes each node
>>> - writes a file as utf8 with the processed data.
>>>
>>> My problem is that all non-western characters appear as
>>> ???? in the final file.
>>> Should I use unidecode for each revXMLNodeContents ?
>>> What am I missing ?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> jbv
>>>
>
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