Well,

are those characters in UTF-8, or are they in the Windows format? In which
case the encoding is not UTF-8 but iso-8859-1.

--
Julian F. Reschke (mailto:reschke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
MedicalData Service GmbH Münster, Germany

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Livingstone,
> ITS, SENM
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 5:03 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: MSXML and Encoding
>
>
> Very strange.
> Characters such as ë or è do not get parsed.
>
> Eg. This fails, giving a ?
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <root>
> è
> </root>
>
> giving the reason
> An Invalid character was found in text content. Line 3, Position 1
> ?</root>
>
> Am I missing something *really* daft?
>
> Basically I have been converting a company information database
> from an old
> Access for to SQL Server and Ingres.
> I went DB -> XML -> DB  for *very* good reasons, using the
> Cononical form as
> a guideline.
>
> Everything worked pretty well in parsing when I removed these characters,
> otherwise it just told me the character was not recognised and stopped
> parsing.
>
> Thanks
> Steven
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	08 September 1999 14:54
> > To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:	Re: MSXML and Encoding
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:35:11 +0100 , you wrote:
> >
> > >Special European Characters don't seem to work for UTF-8 (at least for
> > the
> > >MSXML parser).
> >
> > Do you have a specific example? I haven't noticed any problems of that
> > sort with the MSXML parser.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
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