[XML-SIG] Troubles with latin 1 characters

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:03:37 +0200


> I have troubles parsing some (not all) lat1 characters.  For example,
> processing é works fine, ö gives troubles: it doesn't show up in my
> output (it even looks like the ö is parsed as an end-of-line).  What
> is going wrong here?

XML's default character set is UTF-8, not
ISO Latin 1.  Try adding:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>

to the beginning of your document.

(it looks like the parser you're using is
broken, though -- a good parser should
choke on illegal UTF-8 sequences...)

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