Re: Handling £ (pound sterling) symbo ls in content

On 2/7/09 12:50, mirod wrote:
> 
> I suspect your data is not in utf-8 (or utf-16). If the pound sign is encoded in
> latin1 (or a windows encoding), then the XML is not well-formed.
> 
> You can check that by doing for example iconv -f utf8 -t utf8 myfile.xml If that
> fails, then add an XML declaration with the proper encoding at the top of the
> file or convert it to utf8 (using iconv again).

A bit more investigation proved that it was indeed a Windows encoding 
(1252) and the correct declaration fixed the problem. Thanks to everyone 
for their suggestions.

-- 
Neil Hughes
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