UTF-8 and TOHTML wierdness
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Jun 15 14:54:08 PDT 2006
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> Okay, maybe it's doing what it's supposed to do, but when I use the TOHTML
> command for a current need it's creating a \x94 code which I belive is coming
> from a double quote (inch marks) in a field.
>
> The incoming application gets a XML document and seems to very much not like
> that code.
>
> I thought the problem was with the application, but if I run xmllint on the file
> I get the same error "Input is not proper UTF-8".
Why don't you specify iso-8859-1 as your XML encoding instead of UTF-8?
That may solve your problems. Unless you're dealing with multilingual
stuff, there are very few reasons to actually use Unicode. Yet, everyone
seems to default their encodings to UTF-8. I dunno why.
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