> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimbro Staken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 25 February 2002 10:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [bug] encoding problems
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 02:06 AM, James Bates wrote:
> >
> > As for getting it fixed in release 1.0, I'd have liked it 
> too, but Kimbro 
> > (rightly) prefers to wait, as making UTF-8 the database's internal 
> > encoding breaks existing datafiules. There isn't really a 
> reason not to 
> > just fix the command-line tools though, thus already fixing 
> Stefano's 
> > italian problem...
> > Kimbro?
> >
> 
> How big is the change to fix this and what are the potential impacts 
> elsewhere in the system?
> 

minuscule (about 3k). Effects on other parts of system: only command-line tools 
are affected. Anything using API's would remain as is.

XML files you have written in ISO-8859-1 without specifying so (i.e. by 
omitting encoding="iso-=8859-1" from the XML declaration) will of course no 
longer load with the command tools (Note that such files are not well-formed 
XML files according to the XML spec anyway...).

I've attached the patch to this message.

I still re-iterate though that only solves Stefano's Italian problem. Russian, 
Greek, etc... will still not load into Xindice because of the database 
internals...

James

> >
> > Hope that clarifies things,
> > James
> >
> >
> Kimbro Staken - http://www.kstaken.org - http://www.xmldatabases.org
> Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice
> XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org
> Senior Technologist (Your company name here)
> 
> 

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