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

[Mat Marcus <mmarcus@Adobe.COM>]

At 6:44 AM -0400 4/29/00, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 11.04 -0700 2000.04.28, Mat Marcus wrote:
>>I am trying to parse XML files output by CodeWarrior on the Mac.
>>Typically these files contain some native mac roman characters -- µ
>>(mu) for example. I was searching the archives of this list and
>>noticed that Bart Lateur posted some relevant scripts some time back.
>>Unfortunately these don't appear to be accessible via the archive.
>>What was the final outcome? Is there a file I can drop into my
>>site_perl somewhere to make XML::Parser happy? Could someone forward
>>me the scripts so that I can try it myself?
>
>I am not sure what the problem is, why XML::Parser is unhappy.  Is it
>because it is barfing on the non-ASCII characters?  In XML::Parser's docs,
>it says you can do something like this:
>
>   $xml->parsefile($file, ProtocolEncoding => 'ISO-8859-1');
>
>However, you probably want MacRoman, and I don't think it comes with
>MacRoman.  You can try to build your own; see the ENCODINGS section of the
>XML::Parser docs.
>
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Chris,

Thanks. I read over the thread from the archives again. I see that 
the scripts referred to were part of the XML::encoding package. I 
patched the scripts as recommended. Then I went ahead and created the 
macroman.enc file and dropped it into my XML::Parser encodings folder 
and now XML::Parser is happy. Do you think macroman.enc should be 
added to the XML::Parser mac port or even to XML::Parser?

Mat

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