[SOLVED] Special characters in XML

[ForeverNoob]

Hello,

I'm building an XML for file catalog. One of the files contains the character ö (o with umlaut), and it seems to invalidate the XML. What is the recommended way to handle such characters?

TIA

[snippsat]

xml with character ö or unicode should work fine in Python.
lxml is fine for building xml

from lxml import etree as ET

root = ET.Element('Doc')
level1 = ET.SubElement(root, 'st1ö')
l1 = ET.SubElement(level1, 'Text')
l1.text = 'Test character ö 日本語'
second = ET.SubElement(level1, 'tokens')
second.text = 'happy 😃'
level2 = ET.SubElement(second, 'token', word="car")
level2.text = 'Test'
tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
tree.write('output.xml', pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True, encoding="utf-8") 

Output:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Doc>
  <st1ö>
    <Text>Test character ö 日本語</Text>
    <tokens>happy 😃<token word="car">Test</token></tokens>
  </st1ö>
</Doc>

[deanhystad]

Does the text encoding used in the file match the encoding used to read the file. The ö might be garbage as soon as it's read from the file.

[ForeverNoob]

Got the error - at some point I wrote:

encoding="utf8"

instead of:

encoding="utf-8"

Now it works OK. Thanks all.