Re: decoding non-ascii attribute values

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Erik Thiele wrote:
> can i - as a quick fix - just take the 2 byte values of the characters
> in question an recode them by hand, or do they have different encodings
> dependent on something, and i should use a conversion library?

You should use a conversion library.

Or you might consider using another programming language with full Unicode 
support. E.g. in Python Unicode objects are of different class than strings. 
This makes it easier to pass around textual strings with a known character 
set/encoding and distinguish them from raw string bufs. Java has a similar 
concept with Strings and Bufs.

Ciao, Michael.