From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Encoding/decoding problems
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:26:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E312B5D.6090600@dogan.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QmMTb-0000Dh-4N@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 2011-07-28 11:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:18:04 +0200
>> From: Deniz Dogan<deniz@dogan.se>
>>
>> I'm fetching an XML document that's uses iso-8859-1 coding with
>> `url-retrieve' and then I parse it using `xml-parse-region'.
>>
>> After that, I get the parts of the document that I want and insert them
>> into a buffer. However, the Swedish characters å, ä and ö are displayed
>> as \345, \344 and \326 respectively.
>>
>> I've tried messing around with `encode-coding-region' and
>> `decode-coding-region' but I'm really not sure what to do here.
>
> I suggest to start with describing a reproducible recipe for this
> problem. Not sure if this forum is appropriate, perhaps emacs-devel
> is a better place (as it sounds like you are describing a bug).
>
Here is the code to reproduce it:
(defun fetch-and-show ()
(interactive)
(let* ((old-buffer (current-buffer))
(url "http://dogan.se/sites/default/files/example.xml")
(buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url)))
(with-current-buffer buffer
(let ((doc (car (xml-parse-region (point-min) (point-max)))))
(with-current-buffer old-buffer
(insert
(nth 2 (nth 2 (nth 3 doc)))))))))
The XML file is encoded in iso-8859-1 with a bunch of Swedish characters
here and there. The buffer I'm testing this with is *scratch* with
utf-8-unix. It should insert "hallå" but inserts "hall\345".
I have no idea whether I should use `encode-region-string' or
`decode-region-string' or what. I'd doubt it's a bug to be honest, it's
probably my lack of understanding that's causing this.
Deniz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-28 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-28 8:18 Encoding/decoding problems Deniz Dogan
2011-07-28 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 9:26 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2011-07-28 10:01 ` Jambunathan K
2011-07-28 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 12:23 ` Deniz Dogan
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