Question

I’m using libcurl to fetch some HTML pages.

The HTML pages contain some character references like: סלקום

When I read this using libxml2 I’m getting: ׳₪׳¨׳˜׳ ׳¨

is it the ISO-8859-1 encoding?

If so, how do I convert it to UTF-8 to get the correct word.

Thanks

EDIT: I got the solution, MSalters was right, libxml2 does use UTF-8.

I added this to eclipse.ini

-Dfile.encoding=utf-8

and finally I got Hebrew characters on my Eclipse console.
Thanks

Answer 1

Have you seen the libxml2 page on i18n ? It explains how libxml2 solves these problems.

You will get a ס from libxml2. However, you said that you get something like ׳₪׳¨׳˜׳ ׳¨. Why do you think that you got that? You get an XMLchar*. How did you convert that pointer into the string above? Did you perhaps use a debugger? Does that debugger know how to render a XMLchar* ? My bet is that the XMLchar* is correct, but you used a debugger that cannot render the Unicode in a XMLchar*

To answer your last question, a XMLchar* is already UTF-8 and needs no further conversion.