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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-11-03 10:44 ------- The presense of an encoding in the document type declaration in the string representation of the document is ignored by the parser. It is a relic of the document once being encoded in as a byte stream, by the time that the parser is seeing it the byte stream has been decoded as a string by the InputStreamReader which is oblivious to any encoding declaration in the byte stream. An external parsed entity (such as our and JUL's XML log files) that is not in UTF-8 or UTF-16 requires an explicit text declaration (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#charencoding). Without a text declaration, a parser will snif the file and determine if it is UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE by the presense of alternative 0 bytes and if not will assume that is it is UTF-8. More detail at http:// www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-guessing. It will never consult the platform default encoding. However, if it were written in the platform encoding with the proper text declaration, like: <?xml encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <log4j:event../> <log4j:event../> the current XML decoders would fail to read the file since the would just append that to the string and then the text declaration would be in the wrong place leading to a parsing error. The only way to do it right is to rewrite, which I'm willing to do after getting log4cxx out the door. But there is never any case where using the platform encoding will get you the right content and using "UTF-8" would get you the wrong content. -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
