Hi There,

  I´ve got a problem using msxml, I create a XML document and set the encoding to UTF-8 (using doc.createProcessingInstruction "xml", " version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'").

  If I save it, the file is correctly encoded into UTF-8 (using the method save), if I use the .xml method (returns a string with all the content of the document) to get a string, this is encoded with some kind of UTF-16 encoding, is it possible to get this method (or some other that return the XML encoded correctly in the form of a string), to return a UTF-8 string?

(I need to send this string to a C program in a system that only supports UTF-8)

 Thanks a lot,

Luís Pinho

Not directly, xml property ALWAYS returns utf-16. Do you have any control over the C method?

Joe (MVP - xml)

Some control (I will have to do the same thing in Java), the code that I must use in C must be HP-UX compatible (I'm using ansi C and libxml2). Is there anything I can do to the string when I detect that it's a UTF-16 string(is this detectable)?

Not much help from me, I'm afraid, I don't do anything in C++. As you see xml returns a BSTR which I believe is utf-16. You could load an adodb.stream and set the character type etc. and then read it back.

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Joe

Joe's idea of using an ADO Stream object sounds good to me. You can set the encoding on the stream object (set the Type property to adTypeText and the Charset property to "UTF-8"), then pass the stream in as the destination parameter of the DOM.save() method, then use the stream's ReadText method to pass the xml to C.

hth
Phil