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> From: David Bertoni [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 13 August 2009 18:38
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Invalid byte 1 (£) of a 1-byte sequence
>
> Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> > Well, I configure the built as follows
> >
> > runConfigure -paix -cxlc -xxlC_r
> >
> > So it should have used the 'native' for transcoding. I'm
> afraid I don't know about this to be of more help.
> What could be happening is there's local code page
> transcoding somewhere in your processing stream, and on
> Windows, you're getting a Windows code page (probably 1252),
> not UTF-8.
>
> Note that Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1 are not compatible, so
> don't assume you can interchange them. Rather than hack
> around your source files, you should make sure all of your
> processing is in UTF-8.
>
> You should also run the locale command on your AIX machine to
> verify what code page it's using. If it's UTF-8, that would
> be further evidence your application is doing inappropriate
> local code page transcoding.

I'm a bit out of depth here so forgive me if I say soemthing really stupid 
(which is quite likely).

My XML document is not in UTF-8. The pound sign is just A3, not C2 A3.

But I'm telling my application that the document IS in UTF-8 (using the 
encoding="UTF-8" option).

Windows correctly rejects it. AIX does not.

When you say "make sure all of your processing is in UTF-8", I can't do that. 
The XML is not in UTF-8 and I can not change that (it's created by a C 
programme and I have no idea how to do that).

I ran some locale commands on my AIX box and here's the result

ibu...@kylie% locale
LANG=en_US
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_ALL=

ibu...@kylie% locale charmap
ISO8859-1

Is this why Xerces on AIX understands that A3 is in fact the pound sign?

Giulio

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