umlauts garbled up

[Derek Atkins]

Was this a datafile created with 1.8?  Or a file created with 1.9?
Data files created with 1.8 are potentially completely screwed up..
It's VERY possible that they have a combination of iso-8859 AND utf8
encodings in the same XML file!

-derek

Quoting Eildert Groeneveld <Eildert.Groeneveld at fal.de>:

> Hello Folks
>
> my umlauts (these funny German characters like äöü) are all f..cked up in the
> current svn:
> Dank fÌrs
> Setting LANG or LC_ALL does not have an effect. It seems that the problem is
> in fact in the data file. After unzipping there are lines like
>
> <slot:value type="string">Vielen Dank fÌrs Glas</slot:value>
>
> changing the encoding on the editor also does not have an effect. So it seems
> that the - originally correct - encoding was wrongly encoded at some point.
> I can probably just use vi to fix this back to ü or whatever. But is this a
> problem that needs further attention?
>
> greetings
> --
> Eildert
>
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