From: TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T15:24:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26198] Re: NQXML Conformance (was Re: Conformance Test of XML Parsers in Ruby(20011122))

Hi,

martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) wrote:
> > Multi-byte characters are another problem. How should I handle character
> > references like "&D7A3;" when Ruby can't handle that character? Is there
> > any way that NQXML can reach 100.0% conformance?
> 
> I would suggest to follow the same strategy that Expat uses: Export
> all data as UTF-8 to the application. This will allow for arbitrary
> input encodings, as well as for arbitrary character entities.

In addition, in UTF-8, Ruby can handle it :-)

%ruby -e 'p ["D7A3".hex].pack("U")'
"\355\236\243"

"\355\236\243" is "&#xD7A3;" in UTF-8.


Regards,

TAKAHASHI 'Maki' Masayoshi     E-mail: maki@open-news.com