Re: [xml] UTF-8 encoding error

[massimo morara <m morara 3di it>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:47:34PM +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote:
> But please let me know, if there is any error in the sample data shown below
> which could
> throw this error. Or Any idea on why this encoding error occurred with this
> particular data.
[...]
> Entity: line 123: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate
> encoding !
> Bytes: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF
> module_3_ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
>          ^

	The 0xff byte can't be part of a utf-8 sequence of bytes; a
utf-8 byte can start (from the binary point of view) with "0", "10",
"110", "1110", etc; a zero is needed; 0xff is "11111111" and lack of the
zero.  More in [1].

	I suppose your correct encoding is "iso-8859-1".

		massimo morara

[1] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

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