Nightly 20070202 and new encoding switch

[Dirk]

You are right. Sadly Perl does not provide all encodings :-(

The README in Perls encoding directory states the following:

> This directory contains binary encoding maps for some selected encodings.
> If they are placed in a directoy listed in 
> @XML::Parser::Expat::Encoding_Path,
> then they are automaticly loaded by the XML::Parser::Expat::load_encoding
> function as needed. Otherwise you may load what you need directly by
> explicity calling this function.
>
> These maps were generated by a perl script that comes with the module
> XML::Encoding, compile_encoding, from XML formatted encoding maps that
> are distributed with that module. These XML encoding maps were generated
> in turn with a different script, domap, from mapping information contained
> on the Unicode version 2.0 CD-ROM. This CD-ROM comes with the Unicode
> Standard reference manual and can be ordered from the Unicode Consortium
> at http://www.unicode.org. The identical information is available on the
> internet at ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS.
>

With this information at hand I searched Google and found a 
windows-1252.xml file that I copied and manually edited to describe the 
windows-1253 codepage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1253). Here 
are the two files. Try to use them. Perhaps you will have better luck. 
If it still fails generating the proper characters, please check the 
windows-1253.xml file. I could be possible that I made a mapping error.

Best regards
Dirk



Constantine Dokolas schrieb:
> Dirk <vss2svn <at> nogga.de> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi Constantine,
>>
>>     
>>>> "ssphys" info -eiso-8859-7 "VssAbc/data/names.dat"
>>>>         
>> As Toby wrote, please try to run the above command standalone and 
>> redirect to a file.
>>
>> The encoding patch is not 100% correct, and I still have no ideas, how 
>> to make it 100% correct. We have to deal with two problems:
>>
>> 1.) different encodings: This one should be solved with the encoding 
>> attribute, but while playing with this, I had still problems to output 
>> characters that are allowed in one codepage, but discouraged by the XML 
>> standard. See
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets where some characters, that are 
>> still allowed in the the windows-1252 codepage, are discouraged in XML. 
>> esp. most of the characters in the band [x80-x9f].
>>     
>
> [snip]
>
>   
>> Please have a look at your generated xml file from the names.dat and 
>> check which character is the problematic one.
>>     
>
> Done. The culprit is a 0x92 character (reverse single apostrophe). It seems 
> like 8859-7 is not the right encoding. Instead, "windows-1253" supports 
> that particular character. Unfortunately, using that I get this:
>
> Couldn't open encmap windows-1253.enc:
> No such file or directory
>  at /PerlApp/XML/Parser.pm line 187
>
> It seems the like the proper encoding mapping file is not included in the 
> exe.
>
>   
>> Second: your output shows, that you have a missing ParserDetails.Ini 
>> file. Please check a previous mail thread "Idiots' guide to setting up a 
>> perl environment for vss2svn?". There is a sample ParserDetails file:
>>     
>
> Perhaps you didn't notice, but I'm using the exe. So, I guess it's also an
> exe generation problem.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> Doc
>
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