XML, fileIO, encoding

Hi list...

I'm reading in an XML file with fileIO and in the original
test file I
made, I got a few extra weird characters before the
<?xml?> tag. They're
not there now, after I've created a new .txt file and
renamed it .xml.
But, other people will be editing this xml file, so how can
I be sure
those characters won't creep in again?  I suspect it had
something to do
with encoding.  Aren't' there some bits that either appear
or don't
appear at the beginning of a file depending on encoding? 
I'm not sure,
anyone have some thoughts?

Thanks,
- Michael M.


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Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:

>Hi list...
>
>I'm reading in an XML file with fileIO and in the
original test file I
>made, I got a few extra weird characters before the
<?xml?> tag. They're
>not there now, after I've created a new .txt file and
renamed it .xml.
>But, other people will be editing this xml file, so how
can I be sure
>those characters won't creep in again?  I suspect it had
something to do
>with encoding.  Aren't' there some bits that either
appear or don't
>appear at the beginning of a file depending on encoding?
 I'm not sure,
>anyone have some thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>- Michael M.
>  
>
ultraedit is a very capable editor in the win* world and
very helpful 
when it comes to utf encoding.
I mention it as I just clicked on the hex-mode-button there
to check 
which one they are. There are some variants of utf and they
are 
identified by 2 bytes at the start, utf-8 has a FF FE.
However, utf doesnt go well with director so you shouldn't
use <?xml 
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> at
all.
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> picks the right
encoding for 
director and avoids editors inserting weired bytes at the
same time.


best regards

Daniel Plaenitz


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On 30-sep-2006, at 0:10, dp.lists wrote:

>> I'm reading in an XML file with fileIO and in the
original test  
>> file I
>> made, I got a few extra weird characters before the
<?xml?> tag.  
>> They're
>> not there now, after I've created a new .txt file
and renamed  
>> it .xml.
>> But, other people will be editing this xml file, so
how can I be sure
>> those characters won't creep in again?  I suspect
it had something  
>> to do
>> with encoding.  Aren't' there some bits that either
appear or don't
>> appear at the beginning of a file depending on
encoding?  I'm not  
>> sure,
>> anyone have some thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Michael M.
>>
> ultraedit is a very capable editor in the win* world
and very  
> helpful when it comes to utf encoding.
> I mention it as I just clicked on the hex-mode-button
there to  
> check which one they are. There are some variants of
utf and they  
> are identified by 2 bytes at the start, utf-8 has a FF
FE.
> However, utf doesnt go well with director so you
shouldn't use <? 
> xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?> at all.
> <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> picks the right  
> encoding for director and avoids editors inserting
weired bytes at  
> the same time.

That was a helpful explanation, thanks. I experienced the
same issue.
FWIW, I've seen those bytes at the start of my xml files,
but never  
had a problem so far. Even the Dir Xml Parser doesn't seem
to mind them.

Mark Hagers
markmarksman-do.nl


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Howdy,

I have a project that was created in 1200x768 for a kiosk.
Now the client
wants to put it on a CD and support the average screen of
1024x768.

I've played around with the desktopRectList and the stage
rect, but am
having no luck. We don't want to skew the image, we want it
to keep the same
ration. They donšt care if its letter box looking. They just
want it to fit
inside of that 1,024 and keep its proportions.

Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance,
John


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