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[Loris Bennett <>]

Hi,

An import of an export from Grouper gave me the following error:

    [java] [Fatal Error] export-cats-and-dogs.xml:145:30: Invalid byte 2
of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.

Looking at the XML, I see that different encoding is used for the umlaut
in the 'name' attribute of the 'source' tag to that used for the
contents of the 'description' tag.

      <source id='fub'
        name='Freie Universität Berlin'

class='edu.internet2.middleware.subject.provider.JDBCSourceAdapter'
      >
        <subjectType name='person'/>
      </source>
    </subjectSourceMetaData>
  </metadata>
  <data>

    <!-- 'fub' -->
    <stem extension='fub'
      displayExtension='FU Berlin'
      name='fub'
      displayName='FU Berlin'
      id='148c85b9-9ed8-4721-b33b-65c71025f938'
    >
      <description>Freie Universit&#228;t Berlin</description>

Replacing the 'ä' with '&#228;' allows the import to succeed.

Is this a known issue?

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett
Computer Centre
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany