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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Hi Loris,

I think this is the first time it has come up - I`ll add a Jira issue.

Gary

--On 11 September 2008 12:24 +0200 Loris Bennett 
<> wrote:

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



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing