[Expat-discuss] How is SJIS encoding handled in expat?

[Karl Waclawek]

Agarwal, Saumya wrote:
> Thanks Karl. The  problem was that XML_ParserCreate(const XML_Char *encoding); function was being called by passing UTF-8 which was overriding the encoding declaration, as you suspected.
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>> Not by default. You must register an "unknownEncodingHandler" that can handle SHIFT-JIS.
>> Out of the box, Expat only supports ASCII, ISO8859-1 , UTF-8 and UTF-16 for input.
>> For an example, look at patch #888879 on the Expat web site. 
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> Where can I find an encoding handler which can handle SHIFT-JIS?  Will expat be able to support both UTF-8 and SHIFT-JIS encoding at the same time if I register such an handler?
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I don't know of a publicly available one. You could roll your own, using
the docs and the example
I emtioned above (for GB2312), or you could simply convert the SHIFT-JIS
input to UTF-8.
Just Google for it - there may be some OpenSource available.

Karl