Re: Saxon message: bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-

Hi.

> I am getting a strange error message when I try to process three of my
> files with Saxon 6.2.2. The processor spits back the message:
> LIne: -1
> Column: xxxxx (depends on which of the three files I am working with)
> Bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8 sequence (character code 0x22/ 0x65)
> [The third file has]
> Unsupported five or six byte UTF-8 sequence (character code 0xfc)

This message usually happens when there is a malformed UTF encoding.
colimn:xxxxx actually shows byte offset of a malformed character in file.
You only have to check that.

> I don't know how to analyse this error message or get beyond it, let alone
> access line -1 (!) to tinker with it.

Try to understand what character it is. xxxx is just an offset from the
beginning. It is in bytes.

Bye.
/lexi


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