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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">We have to search and replace high-bit characters sometimes. Here’s what we do:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Find/Replace in Files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Enable the Regular expression option<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Use this code:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">If that gets garbled in posting, it’s
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">On 31.01.2021 00:30, Roger L Costello wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">><i> Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">><i> I have a large XHTML file. Apparently, somewhere in the file is an invalid Unicode character because when I drag-and-drop the file into Oxygen I get the error message:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">><i> Cannot open the specified file: Got a character encoding exception. File encoding (UTF-8) does not support all characters from the current file.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">><i> The problem is this: Where is the invalid UTF-8 character?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">><i> Is there a way to get Oxygen to tell me where -- what character position -- it detected the invalid Unicode character?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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