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Thanks Tim,
Here is the hex for <BirthCity>K?/BirthCity>:
3C 42 69 72 74 68 43 69 74 79 3E 4B EF BF BD 2F 42 69 72 74 68 43 69 74 79
3E
EF BF BD are the questionable characters which replaced 3C.
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:16 AM
To: Long, Craig Z
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8 use with XML
Long, Craig Z wrote:
> Given the following element using a utf character (created by a user's
> system): <BirthCity>Trenton?/BirthCity> I've been told my system should be
> programmed to accept this. I can't find any documentation which supports
> yes or no to this premise. Currently we reject this as not well-formed
XML.
> Please offer expertise concerning this issue.
If it really contains a UTF8 character, no programming should be
required, all conforming XMl software is required to accept UTF data.
Things that could be wrong:
- there's an encoding declaration at the front of the file saying it's
something other than UTF-8
- you think it's UTF-8 but it isn't.
If there's no encoding declaration, then the second is almost certainly
true. If you provide a hex dump of the affected region there are
several people here who could look at it and tell you whether it's
really UTF-8
--
Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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