Re: instead of actual value get strange charachers on dispaying the XML tag via ASPX web page

From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:50:54 +0100

 <<sam>> wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> Thanks for your replay, ? in tag <![CDATA[ ? 845]]> is euro currency sign, i
> dont no why it is convert into " ? " when you see it my email.

Well, it entirely depends on what encoding your newsreader is using. It
hasn't *specified* an encoding, so it's pretty unlikely that things
will get through properly.

> encoding is
> <!--sample XML fragment-->
> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
> are the root elements of my XML file
>
> Waiting for ur reply

Do you not have a

<?xml ... ?>

declaration *before* your root element? If so, you should have one for
good measure, and it should declare what the encoding of the file is. 

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