Special characters in XML properties

[yonidebest]

I have an XML with non-english characters in the property name. My XML is something like this: 10,000,000 Now, instead of "New York", I have "ניו יורק", which is NY in Hebrew. Unfortunately, I cannot change this, and the problem is that the code won't recognize it. The code: XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.Load("C:\pop.xml"); XmlNode xml = doc.DocumentElement; string pop = xml.SelectSingleNode("/file/city[@name='" + cityName + "']/pop").InnerText; Where cityName is New York in Hebrew. I tried changing the NY in all places to English - and the code worked, so I guess it's the Hebrew that is doing the problem. Any idea how I can resolve this? Thanks, Yoni

[Michael Dunn]

Fix the encoding attribute in the <?xml?> tag so it matches the actual encoding of the XML.

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[yonidebest]

Thanks. For some reason, the ISO-8859-1 wasn't enough, so I changed it to ISO-8859-8. Yoni

[lmoelleb]

Use UTF-8 (default of XML). Everything but Unicode (the encodings UTF8, UTF16, or UTF32) is depricated and only supported to allow loading data from legacy programs.