datacapture.cfg and French characters

Here's the beginning of my datacapture.cfg file (actually I've attached it now):

When I view the form, the ampersand in HRP&D shows up, but the French characters like é or the curly apostrophe (regular apostrophe gives me a parsing error) don't show up at all. The letters around them do, that's all.

I tried to force an encoding of UTF-8 or windows-1252 in the xml tag to see if that would make it work, but it didn't. Is there another encoding attribute I should use?

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JackB

It's parsing the code I'm putting in...so I attached the file in the original message. Sorry.

chetansethi

try this

charset=ISO-8859-1

JackB

try this

charset=ISO-8859-1

I tried encoding=ISO-8859-1 in the xml tag and it didn't make a difference.

Also tried LATIN-1 - parsing error. Using charset in the xml tag also gave a parsing error.

kaalraa

Can you send the exact error language, what it is showing on screen.?

I tried encoding=ISO-8859-1 in the xml tag and it didn't make a difference.

Also tried LATIN-1 - parsing error. Using charset in the xml tag also gave a parsing error.

chetansethi

I am not sure how you entering the data... Because the datacapture which you attached is having unicode values of these special french characters, and the unicode values most times has &, which is a special character for XML files.
I changed my locale to french and input language to french to add a few french characters in an XML with encoding ISO-8859-1 and it works properly.

JackB

Can you send the exact error language, what it is showing on screen.?

Couldn't parse DCT bytes into DOM [unable_to_parse_dct ]:Invalid encoding name "LATIN-1".

and the other error is that it's looking for an encoding attribute when I put in the charset. I even put it in as an encoding attribute and it gave the unable to find encoding attribute error.

JackB

I changed my locale to french and input language to french to add a few french characters in an XML with encoding ISO-8859-1 and it works properly.

Where did you put it? And how do you term the locale and input language?

locale=French

language=French

Like that?

chetansethi

i did that on my local windows machine by changing the locale from the control panel

JackB

Numerical code instead of friendly code seems to do the trick.

gzevin

Numerical code instead of friendly code seems to do the trick.

still, your settings seems to be wrong - one *should* not do ny tricks to make this work