Re: [MacPerl-Modules] XML::Parser: support for native Mac (Roman) character set

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Bart Lateur wrote:

> I have experimented with the XML::Parser module today. Much to my
> surprise, it looks like it does NOT support the Mac's native character
> set.
>
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> 
>  - Provided I get the encoding table right, would there be any interest
> in distributing it? Would there be any reason to maybe include them in
> the XML::Parser package, possibly only the Mac version?
>
Getting this done with XML::Encoding would be excellent. I think once
you've got the encoding done up that you should talk to Clark Cooper about
it. Worst comes to worst it could be distributed as part of the MacOS
binary for XML::Parser, and posibly also made available on the MacPerl
Pages.
 
>  - What would be the proper name for the table? I'm thinking of
> "Mac-Roman" for the Mac.
>
Adobe PDF refers to MacRoman. Why not here? :-)
 
>  - Most importantly: once in place, can I use these to decode XML files
> into ordinary Mac text? What would be the module's syntax? Can I encode
> XML files so that they're flagged as using Macintosh specific text, not
> just ASCII?
> 
Well, yes to the latter. Once you've got an encoding in place then the XML
declaration looks something like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding='EUC-KR'?>

I think you should also look at the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority) website (whatever it is) to see what chaacter encodings are
already registered with them as "charsets", so that you'll use the right
name. It may already be there.

I haven't dicked around with encodings very much at all, as there have
been other aspects of things to keep me occupied. But it's starting to pop
up as an issue here and there, and I want to bone up. I'll do some work on
my own wrt this, and put myself in a position to backstop whatever you're
doing. :-)

Anyhow, all of this would be great, and I'll personally be really
interested to see what you do.

Regards, Arved



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