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Re: 5-byte UTF-8 encoding not supported

• To: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>
• Subject: Re: 5-byte UTF-8 encoding not supported
• From: Neeraja Divakaruni <neeraja.divakarunI@o...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:36:43 +0530
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011216232740.00ac23d0@m...>

We are generating the XML document from the data taken from datbase tables and
the default characterset encoding for database is ISO-8859-1.
We updated the database column with a value containing the danish characters
and had hardcoded the encoding tag as "ISO-8859-1". Still facing the same
exception "Invalid UTF-8 encoding".
What can be the reason for this.


"Christopher R. Maden" wrote:

> At 22:53 16-12-2001, Neeraja Divakaruni wrote:
> >We are getting an exception while parsing the XML document using Oracle
> >parser "parseCLOB"  procedure.. The exception is "5-byte UTF-8 encoding
> >not supported".
> >
> >One more observation is the other foreign characters like æ , Æ , Ø (
> >these are also danish characters) etc we are getting ane exception "
> >Invalid UTF8 encoding".
> >What can be the possible causes for these two exceptions ?? Please do
> >respond..
>
> It sounds like the parser is trying to parse the CLOB as UTF-8 despite its
> actual encoding.  The character "ø" is 0xF8 (11111000) in ISO 8859-1, which
> would be interpreted as the start of a 5-byte UTF-8 sequence; the other
> characters you mention are not valid UTF-8 sequence starters.
>
> What code are you using to parse the CLOB and to set the encoding?  I
> suspect that, rather than simply inserting an XML declaration in the CLOB,
> you need to actually instruct the parser what encoding to use for reading
> the input.
>
> ~Chris
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