[Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

Dave Burnett d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
Mon May 12 14:14:49 BST 2014


It's a ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK - U+2019) character which has been encoded as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2477452/a-showing-on-page-instead-of
(and I assume the tilded version is the left single quote).
 

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:23:40 +0100
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

This looks suspicious: that’s not escaping, right? That looks to me like errant characters creeping in from somewhere? Paste from word, etc?  -----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 12 May 2014 12:53
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss   On 12/05/14 12:41, Julian Tenney wrote:> What beats me is why the file should break halfway through a tag name.  What I've seen is that the PHP (or whatever) can't read the XML file as it has the wrong encoding specified, or it just somehow contains characters that are invalid. see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14463573/php-simplexml-load-file-invalid-character-error https://chrismckee.co.uk/saving-user-content-to-xml-error-contains-none-utf-8-content-aka-how-to-remove-invalid-characters-in-utf-8/  David. > > -----Original Message-----> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk > [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David > Goodwin> Sent: 12 May 2014 12:37> To: For Xerte technical developers> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss> > Is it possible that it's a unicode ` character?> > > I've seen a number of UTF-8 related issues with the data.xml etc files.> > David.>    --Pale Purple Ltd PHP Web application development and support http://www.palepurple.co.uk@PalePurpleLtd07792 380669 / 0845 0046746 _______________________________________________Xerte-dev mailing listXerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.ukhttp://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev
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