I recently produced an internal database-driven website on cygwin and
found impossible internationalization issues. My client is based in
Toronto so telling them that accents were just not possible I knew
wouldn't fly. My input starts from excel files exported in xml format.
I couldn't get XMLString::transcode() to work on anything non-ascii
in this environment. Switching to wcstombs() was of no help.
Everything worked fine in mac os x environment, but cygwin wouldn't
display any non-ascii correctly. I finally switched to iconv, which
was very successful. I treat the C++ and C char's as UTF-8. To get
the strings returned from xerces I use a iconv_open( "UTF-16LE",
"UTF-8" ). To send strings from C++ back to xerces I use a
iconv_open("UTF-8", "UTF-16LE"). This works for both cygwin and mac
os x.
Since XMLString::transcode() isn't officially supported I'm not sure
if I should report a bug to Xerces.
Tom
Tom Stockfisch
[email protected]
http://www.tstockfisch.com
760-781-1617 land
760-497-4108 mobile
On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
Hi Cris,
Cris Fuhrman <[email protected]> writes:
Where can one obtain the Cygwin binaries for Xerces-C 3.0.x?
According to http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
install-3.html#Cygwin they
should be in the Cygwin devel group, but I only find 2.8.x
versions from
the Cygwin setup.exe program.
Xerces-C++ 3.0.x probably hasn't made it to the Cygwin repository yet.
However, it is fairly straightforward to build it from sources, as
explained in the Build Instructions:
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/build-3.html#UNIX
Boris
--
Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis Tools http://codesynthesis.com/
~boris/blog
Open source XML data binding for C++: http://codesynthesis.com/
products/xsd
Mobile/embedded validating XML parsing: http://codesynthesis.com/
products/xsde
