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query about xml parsing

hi all ,i just want to knw,is there any boundations in xml parsing with characters

like can we parse a word containing some characters like "frühe" containing "ü" "böser" containing "ö"

while i am parsing my xml,which is few different languages, some characters are like the above. and wen i saw in console, it get interpted,exaactly wen it reacher "ü" becoz at console it prints "fr"

so can someone provide me some ideas about this thing

regards shishir

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If you are using the standard NSXmlParser class and the XML file has the correct encoding= attribute then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. The console output probably isn't unicode-aware so it is interpreting the multi-byte UTF-8 characters literally. Try showing the parsed text in a UIAlertView or some other UI element and see if you still have problems.

Mike Weller 2010-06-01 07:20:10

thanks for the reply mike...yes i am using NSxmlParser,can u tell me,wat should be the correct encoding attribute for my xml???regards

shishir.bobby 2010-06-01 07:25:33

It depends on the encoding of the file. <xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" /> is probably what you need. But I think NSXMLParser will already assume UTF-8 and parse the text correctly. It's just the that the console isn't handling unicode text properly.

Mike Weller 2010-06-01 07:30:23

actually i m working on live xml,so i just saw that xml,which is having "<?xml version="1.0"?>" this.here i need to add "encoding="utf-8"" right??regards

shishir.bobby 2010-06-01 07:36:26

If you don't control the XML then don't bother. NSXmlParser will probably assume utf-8 by default.

Mike Weller 2010-06-01 08:13:50

than how can i overcome this problem.apart from dis special character problem,i cant c any other problem in parsing my xml......regards

shishir.bobby 2010-06-01 08:28:47

Try displaying the text in the application's UI rather than through NSLog. I think the reason the character is not being displayed properly is just because the debugger console does not handle unicode properly.

Mike Weller 2010-06-01 14:38:36

thanks mike,its started working now.thanks a lot

shishir.bobby 2010-06-02 05:12:18

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