Sorry for the belated response; thanks for the help.  Charset
converting the XML files seems to work!  Thanks again.

On Sep 9, 3:18 pm, Felix Engel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:54:28PM -0700, Snallygaster wrote:
> > I found this thread: <https://answers.launchpad.net/mnemosyne-proj/
> > +question/59129> which has an almost identical error message, and I
> > assume the problem is with the character encoding.  The databases
> > contain Japanese, and I know the Palm databases use shift-JIS
> > encoding; I tried changing the "encoding="us-ascii"" in the first line
> > of the XML to "encoding="shift_jis"" but to no avail.
>
> this is almost certainly the same problem. So changing the charset was
> the right idea.
> The last line of your error message:> SAXParseException:<unknown>:1:30: 
> unknown encoding
>
> tells you that the error is on line 1, column 30 of the input file. So in
> essence it says that the encoding "shift_jis" is not known to the
> parser. I see two options
> a) Find out the correct string to put into the encoding field for
> shift_jis files
> b) The option I would prefer is to load the xml file to an editor that
> supports charset conversion, convert it to utf-8 and then import the
> utf-8 encoded xml with encoding="utf-8".
>
> An editor that is said to support this pretty comfortably is notepad++.
> Another option is a command line tool called "iconv".
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>         Felix
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