Hi,

I'm using Allegro 6.1 (modern, international, IDE, German locale.) I'm
trying to parse an XML file which contains latin1 characters.

The parser seems to the umlauts in the file. Setting the "external
format" when opening the string doesn't help. It works when I read the
file into a string and parse that. I saw some reference to UTF8 in the
debugger and the parser implementation. Is that the non-changeable
default encoding when the file is not in 16 bit unicode?

And no, I'm not getting this whole encoding thing.

        Jochen