Issues with German Characters

Hi,

I am using TS 6.7.1
I am creating a template and I need to populate a Dropdown with months in German.

When i give März(March) in the ipl, and try to do 'New Form Entry' it is unable to render the ipl. It gives below error:
Root cause:
SAX Parse:An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the value of attribute "label" and element is "option".

I have tried this:
my $var = "März";
$var = encode("UTF-8", $var);
but this doesn't work.

Can someone please help.
Thanks.

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Migrateduser

I have a text file that contains the options for the drop down and in that I have a comma separated list where I enter them like below using html entities.

See attached file.

manpreet1

It works.

Thanks!!

ISCBorisB

Hi,

I am using TS 6.7.1
I am creating a template and I need to populate a Dropdown with months in German.

When i give März(March) in the ipl, and try to do 'New Form Entry' it is unable to render the ipl. It gives below error:
Root cause:
SAX Parse:An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the value of attribute "label" and element is "option".

I have tried this:
my $var = "März";
$var = encode("UTF-8", $var);
but this doesn't work.

Can someone please help.
Thanks.

There is no need to encode a Literal. By default Perl manages all Strings as UTF-8.

Problem is in File Handles. Your calendar Entries get converted to iso-8859 when you
output generated code (inline substitution?). To illustrate, run the following sample:

my $var = 'März';
print "Default - $var\n";
binmode (STDOUT, ':utf8');
print "After setting UTF-8 - $var\n";

Samir_Friend

Probably using HTML::Entities for the drop-down content would help rather than writing the encoded values into a text file manually.