RE: Query2XML & utf8 databases

Hi, > Lukas Feiler wrote: > > Hi Mickaël! > > Please CC all mails to pear-dev@lists.php.net > > Mickaël Guérin wrote: > > > > Hi Lucas, > > > > I'm a user of Query2XML and I'm experiencing some > > difficulties : there's > > no way to tell Query2XML if datas need to be 'utf8_encoded' or not. > > Is it on your TODO list ? > > If I'm understanding you correctly, you mean that the data in > your database already is UTF-8-encoded and therefore > XML_Query2XML::_utf8encode() should not be called. > There are two solutions to this problem (that all require a > new release): > 1) make XML_Query2XML::_utf8encode() protected (instead of > private) so that it can be overwritten by sub-classes; this > is OO style > 2) create a new option named 'encoder' that can be specified > on every level and allows you to overwrite the default of > XML_Query2XML::_utf8encode() - this would work like > $options['mapper'] [1] > > I prefer the second solution as it gives the developer the > possibility to use different encoding functions for different > levels, i.e. for different tables. What's your opinion? > > This has been sitting on my todo-list for quite some time > now; so thanks for bringing it up! > > > > > I've looked at the code, and the only consequence of > > implementing such a > > feature would be to remove the 'static' attribute of some methods. > > Let me know if you plan to implement this, else I would patch > > Query2XML > > (and send you a patch of course ;) ). > > > > Mickaël. > > > The new 'encoder' option introduced in the new release v1.2.0 allows you to handle UTF-8 databases. Please see the manual [1] for further details on this. It's now also possible to use something else than UTF-8 for XML encoding. [2] Cheers, Lukas [1] http://query2xml.sf.net/docs/html/XML_Query2XML/tutorial_XML_Query2XML.pkg.h tml#query2xml_getxml.options_encoder.disabling [2] http://query2xml.sf.net/docs/html/XML_Query2XML/tutorial_XML_Query2XML.pkg.h tml#encoding