[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Issue while reading Chinese character from xml file

[Matt Baker]

Changing cpstream won't help. cpstream tells the import to assume incoming bytes are UTF-8. XML has a header that indicates the character encoding for the document, so cpstream isn't in play here. Again, you simply cannot convert UTF-8 bytes coming from that XML document into a form that is usable with ISO 8859-1. ISO 8859-1 has absolutely no way to represent those characters.

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