Re: UTF-8 encoding problem

Shreshth
By xml declaration at the beginning of the file,i mean to say the XML
Declaration having the "encoding" attribute at the begining of file
(Encoding = UTF-8, do not remeber the exact format). It is the same as
MSDN says.
Yes, but what specifically does your file say (cut & paste the one from your file into your response to this message)... Alternatively email them to me.

By the way, XML write here is Notepad.
Ah! There's the rub!

What I am saying is the "encoding" of your physical file (the one on disk) is different then the logical file (the xml itself). (My example may have been backwards, but the net effect is the same, the characters are not encoded to what you think they are).

It sounds like your physical file is UTF-8, while I'm concerned your logical file is whatever, where whatever is the text you blindly copied from an MSDN article.


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Hope this helps
Jay B. Harlow
..NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
T.S. Bradley - http://www.tsbradley.net


<shreshth.luthra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1161176427.440331.61020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
By xml declaration at the beginning of the file,i mean to say the XML
Declaration having the "encoding" attribute at the begining of file
(Encoding = UTF-8, do not remeber the exact format). It is the same as
MSDN says.

Do you still mean to say the same in that case as well.
Actually i am not not able to understand completely what exact you want
to say.

By the way, XML write here is Notepad.

Thanks for your reply.





Jay B. Harlow wrote:
Shreshth,
> Although both of them are having UTF-8 as BoM, but only first file is
> having UTF-8 defined in XML declration at the top of the XML file as
> well.
What does the second file have in its XML declaration (what specifically
does its declaration look like)?

Sounds like you have a bug in the application that wrote the second Xml
file.

I suspect (hope) when that application created the Xml (the XmlWriter) it
encoded the characters per what the Xml declaration states. I would then
expect (but not hope) when it (the underlying text writer) wrote the file,
it "transposed" (read mangled) the correctly encoded characters into UTF-8.
I consider this double transposition to be bad, very bad.

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Hope this helps
Jay B. Harlow
.NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
T.S. Bradley - http://www.tsbradley.net


<shreshth.luthra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1161173560.157591.225610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi All,
>
> I am having a GUI which accepts a Unicode string and searches a given
> set of xml files for that string.
>
> Now, i have 2 XML files both of them saved in UTF-8 format, having
> characters of different language.
>
> Although both of them are having UTF-8 as BoM, but only first file is
> having UTF-8 defined in XML declration at the top of the XML file as
> well.
>
> Now, when i search for some different langauge character in that
> directory using a third party GUI for desktop search, it shows that the
> charcter exist in the first file (in which XML declation was also
> there), but not in the second file (having only BoM)
>
> Initilally i thought that the problem is mainly because of UTF-8 being
> supporting both MultiBye and Unicode, but could not find much on it.
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards,
> Shreshth
>


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