RE: Character encoding in xAP messages

["Malcolm Green" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I've fixed this problem.  It requires changes to Sender.cs and Listener.cs
in xAPTransport:

Sender.cs:
// Format the xAP message for the network transport
byte[] msg = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message.ToString("N", null));

Listener.cs

// Decode the message into a text buffer
text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(socket_info.m_buffer, 0, bytes_received);

In both cases, Encoding.ASCII was being used instead of UTF8.


Malcolm Green

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From: Edward Pearson [mailto:edward.mailgroup@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 January 2005 19:51
To: xAP_developer@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xAP_developer] Character encoding in xAP messages


Are you using some particular framework code, eg xAPFramework?

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From: Patrick Lidstone (Personal E-mail) [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 January 2005 19:21
To: xAP_developer@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xAP_developer] Character encoding in xAP messages


> In implementing further xAP features in TelCanto, I've
> discovered that strings with accented characters (e.g. within
> artist, album and title
> fields) are not being transmitted correctly.  I'm just
> passing .NET String values and assumed they would be
> transmitted using UTF-8 encoding.  Is there something else I
> need to do to pass such strings correctly?

They should be, at least according to the spec, I think.

Patrick



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