UTF-8 encoding problem

[shreshth.luthra]

Hi All,

I am having a GUI which accepts a Unicode string and searches a given
set of xml files for that string.

Now, i have 2 XML files both of them saved in UTF-8 format, having
characters of different language.

Although both of them are having UTF-8 as BoM, but only first file is
having UTF-8 defined in XML declration at the top of the XML file as
well.

Now, when i search for some different langauge character in that
directory using a third party GUI for desktop search, it shows that the
charcter exist in the first file (in which XML declation was also
there), but not in the second file (having only BoM)

Initilally i thought that the problem is mainly because of UTF-8 being
supporting both MultiBye and Unicode, but could not find much on it,
because both of them had the same contents when opened in Binary mode
(Except for XML Declaration in 1 of them)
Please help.

Regards,
Shreshth

 

[Richard Tobin]

Although both of them are having UTF-8 as BoM, but only first file is
having UTF-8 defined in XML declration at the top of the XML file as
well.

Even without an xml declaration or BOM, the default encoding for XML
is UTF-8. Are you really opening files, or are the documents coming
from a web server that might be incorrectly serving them as, say,
Latin-1?

-- Richard