Re: Can't find why a generated XML file is "Incorrectly formed UTF-8"

[Thomas Fischer]

Hi Ward,

usually TextWrangler will mark errors in UTF-8 with a character of "�", you can actually search for it as \x{fffd}.

If you don't find anything there try to open your different files as ISO Latin 1 and compare them, there you should be able to see the difference.

Best

Thomas

Am 08.10.2012 um 19:24 schrieb Ward Clark:

I'm developing a FileMaker app that generates an XML file, and I've been using TextWrangler 4.0.1 to inspect the generated file.

Something changed during the past several days, and TextWrangler is now reporting an error when I open the generated file:

Incorrectly formed UTF-8

The UTF-8 file "filename.xml" is damaged for incorrectly formed; please proceed with caution.

If dismiss the error, save the file under a new name, and open the cloned file, there's no error.  Comparing the cloned file to the generated file reports there's no difference.

TextWrangler's footer status bar shows the two files have the same size.  But Get Info on the two files shows that the cloned file is two bytes larger than the original generated file.

How can I determine why TextWrangler is unhappy with my generated XML file?

-- Ward