Thanks Terry for responding. The files are very big and contain data I'd prefer not to be out in the wild. what parts of the file would be helpful , I can provide the lines with the text and say heard part of the xml ??
Thanks G On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Jenda Krynicky <je...@krynicky.cz> wrote: > From: Gregory Machin <g...@linuxpro.co.za> > > I'm debugging an application written in Perl that converse data exported > > from the Nessus security scanner in xml format. I have narrowed down the > > bug to an issue with special characters in names that are in the file > such > > as Fr~A©d~A©ric and Gr~A©goire , thus ~A© are most likely the guilty > parties. > > > > What is the best and most simple way to handle this ? From a quick google > > it looks like I should convert the file to UTF8 format , would this be > > correct ? > > > > Thanks > > > > Greg > > Looks like the data already is utf8, but the header of the XML > specifies otherwise. > How do you parse the data? Can you give us a short example file? > > Jenda > ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== > When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed > to get drunk and croon as much as they like. > -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
