> 
>  ubject:
>  utf-8 (or not) encoding question
>  From:
>  Joshua Santelli <santellij@[...].com>
>  Date:
>  Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:21:22 -0800 (PST)
>  To:
>  perl-xml@[...].com
> 
>  To:
>  perl-xml@[...].com
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using XML::LibXML to parse a file that I have. 
> The character in questions looks like one byte (F3)
> when I `less` the file on UNIX:
> 
> analysis and algebraic topology, such as
> Calder<F3>n-Zygmund theory
> 
> This is the error I get when I parse_file() the file:
>   
> 
...

> Is LibXML correct in thinking that this this is not
> UTF-8?  
> 
Yes.

> Is there an easy way for me to tell if this
> (or any file) is properly encoded as UFT-8?
>   
> 
I believe you have found such a way.

> What's wrong with F3 (&amp;#243;)?
>   
> 
Nothing.  It simply isn't UTF-8 encoded.

It is the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding for a small letter
o with acute.  This is Unicode point U+00F3.

To see how to encode this codepoint as UTF-8, visit:
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch03.pdf#G7404
and look at Table 3-5.

I calculate that the correct UTF-8 encoding for this codepoint
would be the pair of bytes C3 B3.

Regards,
Martin

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