Handling character encoding in xmappr

[Mohamad Charaf]

Is it possible to use xmappr with xml documents that have non ascii
characters? like arabic or any other languages? Is there any means to
set the character encoding when reading the document?

[Peter Knego]

Hi Mohamad,

Currently it's all UTF-8. So you can use non-ascii characters as long as they are UTF-8 encoded.

I'm investigating the possibility to support other encodings. Will let you know later on today.

Peter

[Peter Knego]

Hi Mohamad,

supporting any encoding is actually simple and I just tested it.

Xmappr takes as input a Reader, which produces a series of characters in correct encoding. This by default the default JVM encoding on your box.

To support any (java supported) encoding:

Reader reader = new InputStreamReader( new FileInputStream("/path/to/file.xml") , "cp1250");   // "cp1250" is an example encoding

Peter