Bug#324882: libxml-dom-perl: ignores encoding on output

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:12:30 -0200, Martín Ferrari wrote:

> >  getAttribute() is still  entities incorrectly, which is where I had
> >  problems.  In UTF-8, even with use utf8, this prints the raw byte 0xE4:
> >
> >  #!/usr/bin/perl;
> >  use strict;
> >  use warnings;
> >  use utf8;
> >  use XML::DOM;
> >
> >  my $parser = new XML::DOM::Parser;
> >  my $doc = $parser->parse('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><blah 
> > x="test: &#228;"/>');
> >  print $doc->getDocumentElement->getAttribute("x");
> 
> I'm not following the bug, but want to tell you that even if you "use
> utf8" the default encoding for STDOUT and STDIN is latin1, so it's
> normal that you're seeing the raw 0xE4.

Thanks.
Sounds reasonable to me; and in this case getAttribute() and
getValue() don't seem to print/convert anything.

Anyway, could someone else from the Debian Perl Group with more
insight into encodings and XML take a look at this, please?

Cheers,
gregor
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