On 30-sep-2006, at 0:10, dp.lists wrote:
I'm reading in an XML file with fileIO and in the original test
file I
made, I got a few extra weird characters before the <?xml?> tag.
They're
not there now, after I've created a new .txt file and renamed
it .xml.
But, other people will be editing this xml file, so how can I be sure
those characters won't creep in again? I suspect it had something
to do
with encoding. Aren't' there some bits that either appear or don't
appear at the beginning of a file depending on encoding? I'm not
sure,
anyone have some thoughts?
Thanks,
- Michael M.
ultraedit is a very capable editor in the win* world and very
helpful when it comes to utf encoding.
I mention it as I just clicked on the hex-mode-button there to
check which one they are. There are some variants of utf and they
are identified by 2 bytes at the start, utf-8 has a FF FE.
However, utf doesnt go well with director so you shouldn't use <?
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> at all.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> picks the right
encoding for director and avoids editors inserting weired bytes at
the same time.
That was a helpful explanation, thanks. I experienced the same issue.
FWIW, I've seen those bytes at the start of my xml files, but never
had a problem so far. Even the Dir Xml Parser doesn't seem to mind them.
Mark Hagers
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