Re: Apache Module Development Query on character encodings.

2015-10-21 Thread Nick Kew
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:04:27 +0100 "John Dougrez-Lewis" wrote: > Hi Nick, > > > Hi, are you by any chance the Raving Loony I once knew at Cambridge? > > Yes indeed - that must be 35 years ago now - these days I'm a bit more > sensible (although the legacy of the OMRLP

RE: Apache Module Development Query on character encodings.

2015-10-21 Thread John Dougrez-Lewis
Hi Nick, > Hi, are you by any chance the Raving Loony I once knew at Cambridge? Yes indeed - that must be 35 years ago now - these days I'm a bit more sensible (although the legacy of the OMRLP lives on). > Basically there are three parts to working with character encodings: > * Detecting

Apache Module Development Query on character encodings.

2015-10-20 Thread John Dougrez-Lewis
Hi, I'm considering writing an Apache Module that will involve using libxml2 and CLucene. I need to be able to service and respond to requests as follows: For processing with libxml2: Request Input character encoding => UTF-8 processing of UTF-8 UTF-8 => Response output

Re: Apache Module Development Query on character encodings.

2015-10-20 Thread Paul Spangler
On 10/20/2015 2:23 PM, John Dougrez-Lewis wrote: How do I go about massaging the input & output into UTF-8 and fixed width 16-bit Unicode? Are there any good references on how to achieve this? I can't speak for whether or not it's a good reference, but mod_authnz_ldap can do the "Request

Re: Apache Module Development Query on character encodings.

2015-10-20 Thread Nick Kew
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:23:02 +0100 "John Dougrez-Lewis" wrote: > Hi, Hi, are you by any chance the Raving Loony I once knew at Cambridge? > I need to be able to service and respond to requests as follows: Basically there are three parts to working with character