Re: Handling special characters in peoples names in XML

2013-07-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Gregory Machin > 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 Yep, that should be enough.

Re: Handling special characters in peoples names in XML

2013-06-25 Thread Charles DeRykus
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:01 +1200, Gregory Machin wrote: > > > >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 > > This

Re: Handling special characters in peoples names in XML

2013-06-25 Thread Peter Gordon
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:01 +1200, Gregory Machin wrote: > >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 This is a bit of code I adapt to whichever encoding I require. use open ":enc

Re: Handling special characters in peoples names in XML

2013-06-25 Thread Gregory Machin
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 wrote: > From:

Re: Handling special characters in peoples names in XML

2013-06-20 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Gregory Machin > 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

Handling special characters in peoples names in XML

2013-06-19 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. 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 Frédéric and Grégoire , thus é are most likely the guilty parties.