Kurt Ward wrote:
>Paul,
>
>This is great! We have the need to send UTF-8 encoded strings
>to an application and feel that SOAP is a little overkill for
>what we are trying to do. Hopefully this can get worked into
>CVS.
>
>One suggestion though: I would like to have the option of specifying
>the encoding.
>
You have that option already, just call
XmlRpc.setEncoding("UTF8");
Hannes
>
>
>Thanks!
>Kurt
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Libbrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:41 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Patch suggestions
>
>
>
>Hi there,
>
>
>Since a while happy users of the Helma XML-RPC library we have made a
>few patches.
>
>Two things that seem important for everyone and one that was important
>only for us:
>-> we wanted to have the ability to exchange UTF-8 encoded messages so
>the XMLWriter has been enriched and the MinML parser as well. XMLWriter
>now writes its messages with encoding either ASCII, ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8
>depending on the highest character found when sending. MinML has been
>patched to support reading this (the patch is not really perfect, I
>expect John Wilson to present something better one day).
>
>-> we had Security Exceptions in the applets when run in any other
>applet VM than the InternetExplorer pilotted ones (tests were on MacOSX
>and Linux). This was due to the usage of Sun classes in the applet
>package. The Base64 class has been inserted there as well as the calls
>to it. Note that, I'd suppose a clean thing would be to quote the usage
>of this library (as the XML-RPC library) when using an applet.
>
>-> and the minor ones is that we have at least one parser, made for some
>Lisp, did not like the lack of the string element around textual values,
>so we've added it.
>
>The patched version is distributed under the same license as the
>previous ones (Apache for the org.apache.xmlrpc modifications, and BSD
>for the MinML modifications) and I would like if XML-RPC developers
>would consider including it in the XML-RPC distribution.
>
> http://www.activemath.org/~ilo/revisions/xmlrpc/
>
>Thangs.
>
>Paul
>
>PS: the "ASCII" value for the encoding when no character over 127 is
>found is not very precise... that may need some workings
>PPS: our tests seem to indicate that this is working...
>
