[Mono-list] UTF-16 and XmlTextReader questions

[Brion Vibber]

François Garillot wrote:
> OK. I work from this basefile :
> <test>á</test>
> hexdump:
> 0000000 743c 7365 3e74 3ce1 742f 7365 3e74

This file does not appear to be UTF-16 at all; it appears to be in an
8-bit encoding, ISO 8859-1. In that encoding it is meaningful XML.

> I take the base file again and run 'iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-16' on it.
> I get :
> ÿþ<test>á</test>
>
> hexdump:
> 0000000 feff 743c 7365 3e74 3ce1 742f 7365 3e74

This file, interpreted as UTF-16, reads as a series of Han characters:
"琼獥㹴㳡琯獥㹴". It doesn't contain any document element, so is
interpreted as a text node which is illegal outside of an element:

> Unhandled Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Text node cannot appear in
> this state. file://test.xml Line 1, position 1.
> in <0x001ee> System.Xml.XmlTextReader:ReadText (Boolean notWhitespace)
> in <0x00186> System.Xml.XmlTextReader:ReadContent ()
> in <0x0011f> System.Xml.XmlTextReader:Read ()
> in <0x00071> test:Main ()

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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