Alessandro Bicocchi wrote:
> We create an XML file in ASCII format with also special character like 
> �, but when we try to convert the file in PDF with fop-parser 
> (fop0.20.3-rc)

It is recommended to upgrade to the final 0.20.3 release.

> the special character  is not converted.
> The error which is your parser give us is "Invalid XML character".
> If you could help me solve the problem in some way, like a 
> software which convert from ASCII code to UTF-8 in the follow format 
> character &#x<hex value> (format which the parser fop accept correctly), 

The character you mentioned is in the ISO-8859-1 charset,
so the problem could already disappear if you use this
encoding in your XML declaration as already mentioned in
the other answer you got.

BTW because ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8, there is no
conversion needed. Converting non-ASCII characters to XML
character references isn't a conversion to UTF-8 either.

You could look at the recode utility, which can recode your
files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and nearly everything else.
You can find it in every Linux distribution, for Windows
check out Cygwin
  http://www.cygwin.com
or compile yourself from the source
  ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gnu/recode/recode-3.6.tar.gz
or use you favorite GNU mirror.

J.Pietschmann


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