Manoj, For the XML declaration, the encoding attribute value is specified by the IANA values. The uppercase value of 'utf-8' is the prefered form of the character set.
This is the first time I have seen the need for choosing the preferred value, but I will make a note of it for my stylesheets. You can find a list of character set values online (below). Mike Ferrando Washington, DC IANA character set spec http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets W3c XML 1.0 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-existing-stds --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. However this problem has nothing to do with > data > transfer as I am creating XML file on the fly. So if is installed > on Unix > file gets created on Unix and same for windows... > > My guess turned out right. On Unix you need to specify the encoding > as > 'UTF-8' ( case sensitive ) while on windows 'utf8' ( and for that > matter > 'UTF-8') works fine.. > > FYI > Manoj > > > > > > > "J.Pietschmann" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > e> cc: > > Subject: Re: > XMLParser error with unicode characters in XML > 07/08/2004 03:59 file. > > AM > > Please respond to > > fop-user > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My boss just called me and informed me that on UNIX ( where we > have our > > jars and where we run our application server) its getting an > error > > saying "encoding error utf8". It worked on windows 2000 pro which > I am > > using. Does the utf8 string needs to be different on unix? > > The most likely problem is that the files got corrupted during > transfer. > > You should definitely get some education about encoding issues > rather > than stumbling along blindly. Start here for the XML related > problems > http://skew.org/xml/tutorial/ > There are some websites dealing with encoding issues in Java and > with > transferring files across machines as well. > > J.Pietschmann > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
