UTF character encoding ...

Lost User

I am writing a facility in vb6 to export a number of records to an xml file that will then be sent to an organisation for processing. In the example of how they want the xml document to look they use ... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?> However, when I go to view my document in MS Internet Explorer(6.0), I receive the following error ... The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Error processing resource 'file:///G:/Temp/104749-031001.xml'. Line 1, Position 40 Removing the encoding let's me view the document correctly, so is the UTF encoding absolutely necessary and does it affect the document if it's used on another machine or os? Matthew Live to ride. Ride to live.

Retsof Nawor

The encoding attribute in the XML processing instruction is to indicate the encoding of the document, so it is likely that the document you are creating is not in that encoding hence the error. To check this look at the xml file you are creating in a hex editor, in utf-16 there are (at least) two bytes per character...

Michael Dunn

If you write encoding="UTF-16", the file needs to actually be in UTF-16. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber #include "witty-quote.h"