JRXML encoding not UTF-8 compliant

The character is in FieldPatternDialog.java, at line 936 in the 1.2.5 release. The character is "\\u00A4". I know this is not valid utf-8, as it gets changed, but I don\'t know what encoding it is.

Well it is infact the currency symbo, which is used by formatting code in java to convert it to a local currency symbol (the "\\u00A4") that is. The only problem is the symbo is not valid when parsing the xml file as a strict utf-8 file. Don\'t know what to do about it from here.

The character in question is unicode 00A4, ant the UTF-8 encoding should be 0xC2A4. If it gets written out as 00A4 that IS wrong, as it isn\'t being encoded to UTF-8 correctly.

I am pretty sure it is saving it as 00A4, because I do a find replace on the xml string (I am trying to parse the xml file w/ a sax parser), and replace \'00A4\' with \'\' and it works.

I am using Win32 as the platform (XP). I wasn\'t able to have the

currency character that JasperReports uses, save in a utf-8 text editor

as well. But UTF-8 should be platform independant, so I do not know.

Hi Giulio,

 

I\'ve got a board meeting most of today, so I\'ll run this test again later

and send you the JRXML if I still see the problem.

 

-Barry

 

 

On 11/15/06 2:46 AM, "JasperForge Administrator"

wrote:

 

>

artf1525: JRXML encoding not UTF-8 compliant

 

Modified on 11/15/2006 by

> Giulio Toffoli

Assigned To: - New: "Giulio Toffoli" Old: "No user"

 

Comment

> was added:

On my system it works and no exception is thrown.

>

> What OS are you using?

>

> Giulio

 

Respond by

> visiting:

http://www.jasperforge.org/sf/go/artf1525

 

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Artifact details:-

 

Project:

> iReport

Tracker: Bugs

 

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Status: Open

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Priority:

> 2

Assigned To: Giulio Toffoli

Reported in release: none

Fixed in release:

> none

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Description: In iReport the two

> optiosn for encoding of an xml file are UTF-8 or IS0-8859-1. The issue arises

> when you use the pattern "wizzard" for text field boxes. When you use the

> pattern for currency, a specfic character is used as the marker for the

> currency symbol \'¤\'. This character is handled by the code, throuth the

> Xerces Dom parser. When trying to load the jrxml file, with this character in

> it, through the org.xml.sax parser, it throws an exception stating that the

> character is not a valid UTF-8 character. The locale seems to have no effect,

> nor the encoding, because when the xml file, that contains the erring

> character, is forced to be utf-8, the character breaks, and is changed into

> another, showing that it is not a valid UTF-8 character. An image is

> attached showing the invalid currency character coming up in the latest

> version of iReport.