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Hi,

I have an XML file which contains registered symbol (R and a circle around it).

I am aware that this symbol is in UTF-8 encoding and not in ISO-8859-1.

But when I use ISO-8859-1 encoding scheme for my XML file, browser displays this file properly. But when I use UTF-8, it says:


The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'file:///


Why so?

Thanks.

 
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Well, first of all you can put any character into an XML document regardless of the encoding it uses, because you can always use character entities like "&#xxxx;". And well-written XML software will automatically output characters in that way if the target encoding doesn't support them.

The answer to you main question, I think, is that the prolog of the XML document should declare the encoding actually used to write the document. Declaring <?xml encoding="UTF-8"?> is going to cause problems if you don't actually use UTF-8 to write the document.
 
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