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

On 08/14/01 DR C LITTLETON <c.littleton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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)

> The very first line on all my many files is the processing instruction
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

The XML declaration is not a processing instruction.

> followed on the next line by my
> Document Type Declaration. Pretty standard, I would think, and the same
> first two lines have presented no problem to the over thirty other files
> in which they also appear and which are processed normally.
> From what little I understand of UTF-8 I gather that 0x22 is a quotation
> mark, 0x65 is the letter 'e' and 0xfc is 'u' with umlaut.

0xfc is not 'u' with umlaut in UTF-8.  However, it _is_ that character in
ISO-8859-1.  Likely your document is _not_ encoded in UTF-8.  Try changing
the encoding to ISO-8859-1 and see if that solves the problem.

Dave



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