RE: Global parameters with UTF-8 characters and ???s

> If you use a hex editor at every stage of the process to find 
> out when the bytes for the character ? are x3F (meaning the ? 
> really is a ? and its not just your viewer) then you'll know 
> that the last stage was the culprit.

Actually, I no longer trust a hex editor. UltraEdit in hex mode doesn't
display the bytes that it found on the disk, it displays the result of
decoding those bytes and translating into UTF-16. So I'm now using my own
Java program that displays what a Java FileInputStream gives me, which I
think is reasonably close to what's actually there on the disk. It's as
close as I can get, anyway.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/