XML problem with special characters; HELP!!!

My problem is with XML displaying the character ó; (as well as many other characters that are similar). I put in the code ó but rather than displaying the "ó" it displays the code instead. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. Thanking in advance, pixelj

echolalia, your a superstar. Cheers for the help, its working fine now.

Pixelj

Hi,

I work in the localisation industry and we have been using xml more and more through various CBT courses and web based projects. What we have accepted as a standard is to use UTF-8 encoding of xml where we have to use extended characters which lie outside of the general ASCII character set.

Using the UTF-8 encoding allows you to utilise the extended set of characters beyond the 128 ASCII characters. This means that for many languages where accented characters occur, you simply have to 'type' them into your xml document but you need to change the charset to UTF-8:



If you happen to have your xml doc in Word XP for instance, try to save it as plain text, word will then highlight the characters that will be lost... but here you can select the UTF-8 option and it will save correctly. I believe XMLspy has a similar feature...

If you are doing a lot of language stuff then this is the way to go, and saves a lot of time converting extended characters to coding


Hope you find this useful

Dan