Hi Marcus Define encoding in your Data-xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> Works fine for french and german data. Regards, Helmut > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: M.Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 26. November 2002 14:57 > An: FOP-Mailinglist (engl) > Betreff: German/French Special Characters in FOP > Wichtigkeit: Hoch > > Hi everybody, > > I got a serious problem with special characters, when doing > the following: > > I build up an XML-Document from given data-records. Theese records may > contain special characters, such as German "umlaute" ä,ö,ü,ß or french > "accents" à, û and so on. > > The whole story runs fine with recors without those > characters, but with one > or mor such chars, I got an FOP-Exception: > > "An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xfc) was found in the > element content > of the document." > > when rendering the XML-Document. > > Does any one know how to deal with those characters ? Is > there any kind of > conversion ? > > > Thanks and regards, > Marcus > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]