We have been using the grid component for awhile with much success. However we have recently started to use it with international characters. For example we would embed a value in row as shown below.
This generates a “bad xml” error when loading the grid. The presence of these characters seems to cause a problem.
The javascript below is used to load the grid
mygrid.imgURL = “@CONTEXT@/_inc/dhtmlx_1.6/dhtmlxGrid/codebase/imgs/”;
mygrid.loadXML(document.forms[‘form0’].elements[‘quoteDataResource’].value, disableQuoteProgressBar);
The XML returned is specified as being utf-8 encoded - is there anything else that might cause this? We are using 1.6
The presence of these characters seems to cause a problem.
>> The XML returned is specified as being utf-8 encoded
By default XML uses UTF-8 encoding, in your case the data most probably written in some specific encoding ( most probably iso-8859-1 )
In such case you need change header of XML to the
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
The grid itself will work in same encoding as encoding of HTML page, so it can work with any encoding supported by browser.
If problem still occurs - please provide a sample of problematic XML ( as attachment , to prevent modifications )
All of our HTML pages are encoded as UTF-8. The reason for this is that data is displayed from all parts of the globe - i.e. Asia, Europe, US. Shouldn’t UTF-8 also handle iso-8859-1 characters as well?
Shouldn’t UTF-8 also handle iso-8859-1 characters as well?
UTF-8 may show the same glyphs as iso-8859-1 ( umlauts , accents, etc. ) , but if you will put data with umlauts in iso-8859-1 encoding inside UTF based XML - it will cause error.
( while it may seems correct , the umlauts and other similar chars encoded as one byte value in iso-8859-1 and as multi-byte value in UTF)
If problem still occurs - please provide a sample of problematic XML ( as attachment , to prevent modifications )