On one site, I am using a non-English (Armenian) characters in an XML
document. Everything is working fine, I have saved the XML document
with a ?UTF-8? encoding?I am having one tiny problem. The character
that represents the Sh sound, comes out as a ?>? and that character is
a reserved character in XML. How can I still show this character? The
lower case of that character is not having the problem, it?s just the
upper case. Is there a way to may be quote that so the XML code does
not take it as part of the code, and just handle it as a text
character?

Thanks

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 19 Sep 2005 16:10 PDT

Howdy leomis-ga,

Would the following information help at all?

"Zvon Character Search"
http://www.zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?request=1351&searchType=2

"This material is based on Unicode Character Database and XML specification."

Thanks!  denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Question by leomis-ga on 20 Sep 2005 11:11 PDT

Thank you for the response!

It still only shows a Box where the character is supposed to be.
See: http://caspianservices.net/box.jpg

To clarify exactly what I am doing...I am using a Flash PhotoGallery
Viewer that uses XML to grab the data. More info on the viwer:
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

Here is the actual line from the XML file:
<IMAGE><NAME>37.jpg</NAME><CAPTION><![CDATA[<font face="Aramian
Normal" size="16">&#1351;r=apatoua/ ir st;[/agor/ouj;an
;rkrpagoun;row7 H=mia/ni Ma3r :k;[;zi Tayar5 Fa3astan5 <font
face="Comic Sans MS">1986  &nbsp;&nbsp;</font><A href="images/37.jpg"
target="_blank"></font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="16"><U>Click
here to view larger image.</U></A></font>]]></CAPTION></IMAGE>

Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 20 Sep 2005 11:49 PDT

What happens if you use the following instead?  Thanks!

<IMAGE><NAME>37.jpg</NAME><CAPTION><![CDATA[<font face="Aramian
Normal" size="16">&#x547;r=apatoua/ ir st;[/agor/ouj;an
;rkrpagoun;row7 H=mia/ni Ma3r :k;[;zi Tayar5 Fa3astan5 <font
face="Comic Sans MS">1986  &nbsp;&nbsp;</font><A href="images/37.jpg"
target="_blank"></font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="16"><U>Click
here to view larger image.</U></A></font>]]></CAPTION></IMAGE>

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Clarification of Question by leomis-ga on 20 Sep 2005 12:07 PDT

Same thing. I tried both.

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 20 Sep 2005 17:37 PDT

OK, let's try something a bit different, please.  Thanks!

<IMAGE><NAME>37.jpg</NAME><CAPTION><![CDATA[<font face="Aramian
Normal" size="16">?;r=apatoua/ ir st;[/agor/ouj;an
;rkrpagoun;row7 H=mia/ni Ma3r :k;[;zi Tayar5 Fa3astan5 <font
face="Comic Sans MS">1986  &nbsp;&nbsp;</font><A href="images/37.jpg"
target="_blank"></font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="16"><U>Click
here to view larger image.</U></A></font>]]></CAPTION></IMAGE>

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Clarification of Question by leomis-ga on 21 Sep 2005 10:35 PDT

denco-ga,

That did not work. 

Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by leomis-ga on 21 Sep 2005 10:38 PDT

Problem solved. See last post, at the bottom.

Hi

here is my answer.

You can use escape sequences (for example, specify "<" as "&lt;" and
">" as "&gt;"),
or you can make an entire script opaque <![CDATA[ ...]]> section.

Example::
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<welcome>Welcome &lt;  &gt; to XML.</welcome>

Regards
Frederic Anand

Frederic Anand,

That DID work. That is exactly what I was looking for.
I just used this "<", and my "Aramian Normal" font converted that into ?.

Thanks for your help! :)

Leonard