BOM (Byte Order Mark)

[Noél Dubau]

Hello

I'm using FusionCharts Free to include charts in a FileMaker 9 application. So I have to create 2 files, an html one an an xml one, the last containing datas from my database.

To create the xml file I use the following code

Define variable($xml_code;"



   

   

    

   

  

  

  



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Then, in a second time I use the SMaster function to write that file as data.xml

//This simple version uses utf-8

//new File( filePath ).write( textToWrite );



//This more advanced version allows you to specify the character encoding

OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( filePath ), "utf-8" );

writer.write( textToWrite );

writer.close();

return true;

It works but when the html takes the data.xml, all accented chars are not correct as you see on the screen copy; I've read that it was because there were not the BOM in the data.xml file.

But I don't know how to include it from FileMaker.

Thanks for your help

Noël

I've just found a solution (perhaps it's not the best and I don't mark that question as solved) replace utf-8 by 8859_1 in the script of SM..

Edited April 27, 2010 by Guest

[Jesse Barnum]

Noel, if that fixed it, then I suspect that the library that was generating the charts is incompatible with UTF-8. In that case, your fix is probably the best option.

[Noél Dubau]

Hello,

I'm not strong enough to verify your idea ! The product used is FusionCharts in its free version...

So, I'll stay on my way to fix my problem.

Thanks

Noël