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Re: Saxon message: bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8 sequence
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Saxon message: bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8 sequence
- From: David_N_Bertoni at lotus dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:44:31 -0400
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On 08/14/01 DR C LITTLETON <c.littleton@history.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am getting a strange error message when I try to process three of my
> files with Saxon 6.2.2. The processor spits back the message:
> LIne: -1
> Column: xxxxx (depends on which of the three files I am working with)
> Bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8 sequence (character code 0x22/ 0x65)
> [The third file has]
> Unsupported five or six byte UTF-8 sequence (character code 0xfc)
> The very first line on all my many files is the processing instruction
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
The XML declaration is not a processing instruction.
> followed on the next line by my
> Document Type Declaration. Pretty standard, I would think, and the same
> first two lines have presented no problem to the over thirty other files
> in which they also appear and which are processed normally.
> From what little I understand of UTF-8 I gather that 0x22 is a quotation
> mark, 0x65 is the letter 'e' and 0xfc is 'u' with umlaut.
0xfc is not 'u' with umlaut in UTF-8. However, it _is_ that character in
ISO-8859-1. Likely your document is _not_ encoded in UTF-8. Try changing
the encoding to ISO-8859-1 and see if that solves the problem.
Dave
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