Parsing acute accents

[jojo11]

I have a parser application written in .NET which we load things into a DOM object. The header shows the files that we receive are encoded in UTF-8. Whenever it encounters an accented character, (é, ç â è ñ ü) the parser blows up every time.
How can we resolove this?

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Ummm, we have a bit of a problem here....

 

[harebrain]

You probably have ANSI-encoded data: you can't just call it UTF-8 and expect it to magically be UNICODE.

Try this experiment: create a new document in Notepad, copy your data into it, and save the document changing the encoding to UTF-8 (bottom drop-down list in the Save as... dialog.) Then run it through your parser.

Works now?

 

[chiph]

Inspect the file in a hex editor (I like

http://www.hexedit.com).

If those characters are represented by 2 or more bytes, then you most likely have UTF-8 encoded file. If they're represented as single bytes, then you have a single-byte (code-page) encoded file. If you have a code-page file, you will need to contact the sender to find which code page they used to write the file with (those characters are shared by several code pages, not just a single one).

It would also be helpful if you posted the contents of the XmlException you got as a result of calling LoadXml (assuming you're using an XmlDocument). Don't forget to check the InnerException property, in case it isn't null.

Chip H.


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