Encoding Japanese

[Toby Johnson]

Dirk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> have you tried to run with the --encoding="x-sjis-cp932" parameter?
>
> The patch you did is somewhat problematic, since it will encode the
> complete XML output including all markup. Normally only the content is
> "encoded" in some way and that is what the "encoding" switch does. It
> will flag the generated XML with a specific encoding, and the XML-Reader
> will convert while he is decoding the input. So it could be problematic
> if the XML-Reader does not have an apropriate encodings file and there
> are esp. problems with the Shift-JIS encoding and cp932.
>
> Additionally it would be necessary to remove the following line all
> together. This line should only pick up garbage and this could be
> problematic for japanese encodings.
>   

Just to be clear, the --encoding switch that Dirk refers to is not in 
the 0.11-alpha-1 release; you must use a recent nightly build to get 
that functionality.

toby