[Mediawiki-l] Web page source - "strange" characters

[Chad]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Frank Ralf <Frank.Ralf at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Here is what I have been experimenting.
>
>> If I open that file with "Firefox" I get the following
>> message:
>> =======================================================
>> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
>> Location: essai.xml
>> Line Number 5, Column 9:        Etoil?
>>                   ---------------^
>> =======================================================
>> I don't understand why there is an error...
>> How am I supposed to write it?
>
> For converting text files to UTF-8 encoding Microsoft's own Notepad is very reliable in my experience (even if other editors claim to do the same).
>
> hth
> Frank
>
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Except that it silently adds the BOM, which breaks a lot of things.

-Chad