Weird error

[iebidan]

Please!!!! I need someones advice on this error.

 

We've an application intended for mexican users (in spanish) as most of you know in spanish they use accents (á,é, etc), well, we create a XML file with the configurations, labels names, etc. last friday it was working perfectly, the XMLTextReader was reading the XML with no problems at all, now, I get this error

 

"There is an invalid character in the given encoding. Line 4, position 25. "

 

if I look into that line and position there an accent (á), how can I make the reader to accept accents???? but the strangest thing here is that it was working perfectly and today I guess the framework got up in a bad mood or something.

Can you help me with this? Thanks in advance

[Illusion]

Can you read it in as a dataset? ... maybe somethings gone corrupt.. as it normally does ... :(

[Nerseus]

I may be off, but I thought that XML, like HTML, was "english" ASCII based. Meaning, you couldn't have those non-"standard" characters in there. I think they needed to be encoded inbetween CDATA blocks or converted to their numeric equivalent, such as "%27". Might be wrong though...

 

-ner

[samsmithnz]

You might just need to use an escape character, which in XML I believe is &

[iebidan]

nothing is working, this is really weird, the same XML was used last week and was working perfectly, and now it's not, we're looking for a solution, if you've more ideas will be well recieved, otherwise if we find out what's going on I'll let you know

 

Thanks in advance for your help

[iebidan]

Well after checking everything in the application we found the problem...

 

XML can accept accents, it's not an "english" based markup language, the main problem was that the encoding used was UTF8 (by default) but at some point of the application the XML needed to be edited, so the dude that developed that part never thought that sending and encoding diff from UTF8 will generate this problem.

So the problem was the encoding used, now the problem is solved, so boys and girls if you're using XML's check that the same encoding is used around your application.

 

Thank you guys for the help and guide :D