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XML and unicode

Hi,

I am currently experiencing a problem reading an XML file wich containts
unicode data, in fact words from foreign language (hebrew, arabic, asian,
....)

The code I am using is very basic :

xmlfile="c:\test.xml"

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0")
If xmlDoc.Load(xmlfile) Then
Set Tim = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(infos)
TheWord = Tim.Item(0).Text

The header of my XML just containts :

<?xml version='1.0'?>

and the data is (example in hebrew) :
<information>?????</information>
<justForTest>mytext</justForTest>
With this code, if I request 'information', I get ???? in my 'TheWord' var.
If I request 'justfortest', it works fine.

I just wonder why I get this problem and if someone can give me some advice.

Thanks

FE


Nov 20 '05 #1
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> With this code, if I request 'information', I get ???? in my 'TheWord' var.
If I request 'justfortest', it works fine.

I just wonder why I get this problem and if someone can give me some >

advice.
Is you application ANSI?
If yes, then the data from xml (unicode) is converted to ansi code page.

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Mihai
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Nov 20 '05 #2
NM
Hi,
The header of my XML just containts :

<?xml version='1.0'?>


You should specify on the header of your XML file the encoding type :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-8" ?>

Regards,
Nov 20 '05 #3
I am using VB6.

Any idea ?

Thanks
"Mihai N." <nm**************@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xn********************@204.127.204.17...
With this code, if I request 'information', I get ???? in my 'TheWord' var. If I request 'justfortest', it works fine.

I just wonder why I get this problem and if someone can give me some >

advice.
Is you application ANSI?
If yes, then the data from xml (unicode) is converted to ansi code page.

--
Mihai
-------------------------
Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email

Nov 20 '05 #4

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