Oh yes thanks. Forgot to mention this. Forcing utf8 doesn't help.
Il ven 27 mag 2022, 19:26 Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsm...@gmail.com> ha
scritto:
> Marco -
> I'm sorry but I can only corroborate your findings, and that trying to
> force UTF-8 by adding the encoding parameter to the functions doesn't seem
> to help; e.g.
>
> ) ./bin/basex
> BaseX 9.7.1 [Standalone]
> Try 'help' to get more information.
> > xquery file:current-dir()
> /usr/home/bridger/bin/basex/
> Query executed in 886.62 ms.
> > xquery file:write-text("a1.txt", "°" || out:nl(), "UTF-8")
>
> Query executed in 4.32 ms.
> > xquery file:read-text("a1.txt")
> °
>
> Query executed in 1.99 ms.
> > xquery file:write-text("a2.txt", file:read-text("a1.txt", "UTF-8"),
> "UTF-8")
>
> Query executed in 1.83 ms.
> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt")
> [file:io-error] Decoding error: xb0
> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt", "UTF-8")
> [file:io-error] Decoding error: xb0
> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt", "ISO-8859-1")
> °
>
> Query executed in 2.01 ms.
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM Marco Lettere <m.lett...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> after wrapping our heads around this for hours today, we don't know how
>> to get rid of this inconsistency. Thus I ask for help ...
>>
>> SSCE:
>>
>> BaseX 9.6.4 [Standalone]
>> Try 'help' to get more information.
>> > xquery file:write-text("a1.txt", "°" || out:nl()) (: Same with
>> codepoints-to-string(176) instead of "°" :)
>>
>> Query executed in 183.94 ms.
>> > xquery file:read-text("a1.txt")
>> °
>>
>> Query executed in 1.49 ms.
>> > xquery file:write-text("a2.txt", file:read-text("a1.txt"))
>> Query executed in 3.4 ms.
>>
>> > xquery file:read-text("a2.txt")
>> [file:io-error] Decoding error: xb0
>>
>> Testing the files with linux command-line tool "file", this is the output:
>>
>> > file a1.txt
>> a1.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text
>>
>> > file a2.txt
>> a2.txt: ISO-8859 text
>>
>> Reading the file after "copying" it seems to change the encoding. How is
>> this supposed to be handled?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marco.
>>
>>
