xml-dev - RE: Contracts & Acceptence Testing. Re: IE5 and UTF-8

[Lucio Piccoli <Lucio.Piccoli@one2one.co.uk>]

thanks for your response Rick,


> If you need to be able to pin down the specific encoding problem, some
> extra info would be helpful:
>  - Can you tell us what the particular UTF-8 encoding error is? 

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Unconvertible
UTF-8 character beginning with 0x96" (line number may be too low).


>  - Could you open the same document in IE5? 

yeah.

>  - when you say "send" do you mean over HTTP? if so, are the senders
> setting the correct charset parameter in the HTTP header.  If 
> not, does the document have no encoding declaration or one that explictly
says
> "UTF-8"?

Nope. The HTTP headers do not contain the UTF-8 charset attribute, but why
is that a problem? Does the parser read the HTTP headers to determine the
encoding? Shouldn't it simply stream the content body?

 
> If you can capture the data and send a hex dump (if you have 
> a GNU/UNIX system you can use  "od -tcxC filename") of the offending
fragment, that would be useful.

my hex editor does the same. 
sequence  20 96 20.
So from the UTF-8 spec 0x96 is way beyond 0x7F. 

 
So do i have a case for telling my supplier to correctly validate his
documents?

thanks

-lucio



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