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gabon

change xml encoding
Oct 11^th, 2005, 4:32pm

Hi guys, I'm using nanoxml lite to parse an xml that is generate from a server. I asked to generate the xml using as encoding iso-8859-1 but I have problem with special characters (òàùèì, for instance). To make a test I downloaded the file and I saved as utf-8 but now p5 gives me an error:

Code:

java.lang.RuntimeException: nanoxml.XMLParseException: XML Parse Exception during parsing of the XML definition at line 1: Expected: <

Does someone have a clue on what happen? would you suggest me to make the server generate a utf-8 xml?

cheers, chr

{Christian Giordano's site and blog}

gabon

Re: change xml encoding
Reply #1 - Oct 11^th, 2005, 6:03pm

Thanks to Toxi I realized that first my shitty editor instead of saving the file as utf-8 saved it at utf-8y :S
So after saving it properly p5 doesn't give anymore the error, but I can't see properly the special characters (the same point I was without utf-8 encoding of the file).
It shouldn't be a problem with PFont because if I put the special character with my text editor in a non utf-8 encoded xml, they are shown correctly.

Any idea?

thanks, chr

{Christian Giordano's site and blog}

toxi

Re: change xml encoding
Reply #2 - Oct 11^th, 2005, 6:56pm

so i figured out this problem has actually to do with the fact loadStrings() doesn't specify a decoder for its InputStreamReader() instance... This is potentially an obstacle for international users, so maybe we could have an overloaded version of loadStrings(), in which one can specify a character encoding format explicitly? like:

loadStrings("hello.xml","UTF8"); or
loadStrings("hello.xml","8859_1");

and then in PApplet.loadStrings() change line 3268 to:
Code:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(input,"UTF8")
);

is it worth it?

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gabon Full Member Offline Posts: 121	Re: change xml encoding Reply #3 - Oct 11^th, 2005, 8:35pm Since I'm using nanoxml passing lines got from loadStrings(), Toxi suggested to me to use directly the parseFromReader() method of nano. And of course it works I put: Code: xml.parseFromReader(new InputStreamReader(openStream("http://...../file.xml"),"UTF-8")); Thanks to Toxi for the important help! chr
	{Christian Giordano's site and blog}

fry

Re: change xml encoding
Reply #4 - Oct 11^th, 2005, 9:19pm

toxi wrote on Oct 11^th, 2005, 6:56pm:

so i figured out this problem has actually to do with the fact loadStrings() doesn't specify a decoder for its InputStreamReader() instance... This is potentially an obstacle for international users, so maybe we could have an overloaded version of loadStrings(), in which one can specify a character encoding format explicitly like:

loadStrings("hello.xml","UTF8"); or
loadStrings("hello.xml","8859_1");

interesting.. for intl users it uses the default encoding of the client system, though that's probably not a good way to go for most cases. i guess it's not too much of an api change..

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