in reply to Malformed UTF-8 character

0xB0 itself ("°") is invalid UTF-8; the proper encoding is 0xC2 0xB0 ("°"). Therefore, the file was not properly written to as UTF-8, and thus the error when you try to open it as such.

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Re^2: Malformed UTF-8 character
by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Apr 30, 2011 at 20:02 UTC

    Thanks for your help both the solutions described here worked. The "°" and the setting the file-encoding setting, which I guess achieved the same thing.

    Regards

    Steve

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