umlauts garbled up

Eildert Groeneveld Eildert.Groeneveld at fal.de
Fri Mar 10 12:45:11 EST 2006


On Friday 10 March 2006 18:41, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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..
yes, it came all the way from 1.1 ... 1.8 :)
> It's VERY possible that they have a combination of iso-8859 AND utf8
> encodings in the same XML file!
that was apparently the case. I fixed this now with a editor (set to utf8) and 
it seems to be ok again. (I like the xml format!)

This is then probably worth a line in the migration docs?

greetings

Eildert
>
> -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:



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