Re: Encoding problem

> I opened the file using UltraEdit. The sequence shows
> as 94 for the trouble character.

presumably that means hex 94. this (as a single byte) isn't the utf8
encoding of anything. So if your encoding declaration specifies utf8
(and this is not being overridden/corrected by a higher level proptocl
such as an http mime type) then your file is not well formed and should
be rejected with a fatal error.

If your file is latin-1 encododed (iso-8859-1)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
 then byte hex 94 will represent the unicode character hex 94 (decimal
148) which is  <description unicode="control">CANCEL CHARACTER</description>
which is legal but probably not what you want.

So probably you are using a microsoft-specific encoding such as cp1252
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
which does indeed say that hex 94 is a double quote.

So you could use (if your parser supports this encoding)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="cp1252"?>


But better would be to generate your source file in a standard encoding
such as utf8, if that is possible.

David

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