[LinuxUsers] Mac Question

[Brian Friday]

+1 to Peter's UTF question.

Sounds like the data displayed and in the database may not be in the same format
your XML export assumes the data is in thus the funky characters.

- Brian


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the screen shot Im getting from the Mac User trying to view my XML.
> https://www.math.lsu.edu/~coffee/encoding_problem.png
>
> Chris...
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Dave Bradley <daveb96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Office 2008?  Sorry I couldn't resist.  :D
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Peter Manis <manis at digital39.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Funny characters sounds like what you are using doesnt support UTF-8.
>>>  Since wikipedia is international it is going to most likely be encoded in
>>> UTF-8.  I use textmate on my Mac, but I'm sure there are plenty of free text
>>> editors supporting UTF-8.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So I have these xml files that we are exporting from mediawiki.  Im
>>>> capturing the XML using linux.  I
>>>> download the xml via curl then import into our database via python. I
>>>> can see the XML fine unless I use some funny program, but
>>>> The XML has the funky characters in it when opened in MAC.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone had similar issues with MAC.  Is there any recommended xml
>>>> software for MAC?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Chris...
>>>>
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