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RE: UTF-8 use with XML

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: RE: UTF-8 use with XML
• From: "Long, Craig Z" <craig.long@e...>
• Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:12:58 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Thanks Tim,

Here is the hex for <BirthCity>K?/BirthCity>: 

3C 42 69 72 74 68 43 69  74 79 3E 4B EF BF BD 2F 42 69 72 74 68 43 69 74 79
3E

EF BF BD are the questionable characters which replaced 3C.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:16 AM
To: Long, Craig Z
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  UTF-8 use with XML


Long, Craig Z wrote:
> Given the following element using a utf character (created by a user's
> system): <BirthCity>Trenton?/BirthCity> I've been told my system should be
> programmed to accept this.  I can't find any documentation which supports
> yes or no to this premise.  Currently we reject this as not well-formed
XML.
> Please offer expertise concerning this issue.

If it really contains a UTF8 character, no programming should be 
required, all conforming XMl software is required to accept UTF data. 
Things that could be wrong:

- there's an encoding declaration at the front of the file saying it's
   something other than UTF-8
- you think it's UTF-8 but it isn't.

If there's no encoding declaration, then the second is almost certainly 
true.  If you provide a hex dump of the affected region there are 
several people here who could look at it and tell you whether it's 
really UTF-8

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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