Hi, Jot -

I have to admit I am not familiar with most of the modules you mention so my advice below may be completely off the mark. I have, however, also worked with large UTF-8 encoded XML files before that contained German language entities, some of which were sensitive to character encoding (especially the umlauts).

The solution that worked best for me was to use the Linux command recode encoding_old..encoding_new file_name where encoding_old and encoding_new are the character encodings between which you want to re-encode your XML file file_name. I found it easiest to convert your whole XML file into the appropriate character encoding before processing it and then re-convert it once you are done. To find out which character sets your system has available for re-encoding use recode –l.

Again, I am not sure this really helps. Apologies if it doesn't.

Cheers -

Pat

In reply to Re: UTF-8 entities in XML/HTML? by pat_mc
in thread UTF-8 entities in XML/HTML? by Anonymous Monk

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