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

Hi Loris,

That would explain it - my sources.xml has:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

and so SourceManager tried unsuccessfully to read the character as UTF-8.

In the absence of an explicit encoding the system default would be used - 
the System property 'file.encoding' shows your default and can vary 
depending on the OS.

On my system I get:

file.encoding=Cp1252


Easy way to check is to add the following target to a build.xml:

<target name="enc">
        <echo message="file.encoding=${file.encoding}"/>
 </target>

Should you want to you can override the default by setting the system 
property i.e

-Dfile.encoding=<encoding>

Gary

--On 10 October 2008 08:40 +0200 Loris Bennett 
<> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> In my source.xml I have 'ä'. In hex it is C3A4, so the file is UTF-8. It
> is maybe somewhat surprising that this works, since there is no
> <?xml>-tag with the encoding.
>
> Are there any external dependencies which play a role in XML parsing
> which could vary from platform to platform? I am running 64bit Debian
> etch.
>
> Anyway, thanks for correcting the problem.
>
> Loris
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:17 +0100, GW Brown, Information Systems and
> Computing wrote:
> > Hi Loris,
> >
> > I think I've fixed this now - in CVS. The code which exports group and
> > stem  attributes was 'escaping' the output, but the source name was not
> > being  escaped.
> >
> > I modified:
> >         private void _writeSubjectSourceMetaData(Source sa)
> > in XmlExporter so that name is escaped - id was escaped already.
> >
> > this.xml.internal_puts("name=" + Quote.single( XML.escape(sa.getName())
> > )  );
> >
> > Out of interest, what did you have in sources.xml - ä or &#228;? When I
> > tried ä SourceManager would not parse sources.xml.
> >
> > 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
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------
> > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing



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