SAXException: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence

[P Lavti]

Hi,

I am trying to parse an XML file using SAX parser which contains Swedish character "��� ��� �".
I have used the UTF-8 encoding in the XML document.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

But the parser gives me the exception:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:215)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:386)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1810)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:375)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:311)
        at Echo01.main(Echo01.java:59)

If I use the encoding iso-8859-1, it works fine.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

Can anybody help me in understanding why it doesn't work with UTF-8 encoding.
Is there any way I can parse my XML, using SAX parser with UTF-8 encoding.

Thanks!
[ January 25, 2008: Message edited by: P Lavti ]

[Paul Clapham]

Originally posted by P Lavti:
I have used the UTF-8 encoding in the XML document.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

Just doing that does not cause the file to be encoded in UTF-8. You actually have to save it out of your text editor, or whatever is creating the file, in UTF-8. You didn't do that.
[ January 25, 2008: Message edited by: Paul Clapham ]

[P Lavti]

The file is created at run time. How can I create a file in java which understand UTF-8 chars.

One more thing, If I change the encoding to iso-8859-1 it works fine.

[Paul Clapham]

Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(filename), "UTF-8");

[P Lavti]

Ohh.. I got it now!!!

For my testing I was creating the file in windows.. instead of creating at run time..

After creating it run time.. it worked!!!

Thanka ton!!!

[John Jai]

Hi Paul,

I am receiving the same error -> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.

But the error is popping @ a specific line # 17850 which has the content -> <Name>TITLE II  COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND</Name>

Can there be any wrong in the given text for UTF-8 conversion or that the document was not rightly encoded with UTF-8?

If the document was not created with UTF-8 why does it errors only at a particular line parsing after nerly 10000 lines of the doc?

Thanks,
John

[John Jai]

Hi,

Sorry for my stupid question. When i viewed through a Difference Viewer it showed me a special symbol that was actually present after the numerals (II & III).

I am attaching the screen shot. But I don't know why the special symbol looks like white space rather than showing up something weird.

Thank you!
John

[pardeephotmail kumar]

hi John Jai,

You are not able to see the special character because the editor,terminal,gedit tools etc doesn't support that character.

Another way to handle the same exception what I found is

new String(bytes,"ISO-8859-1").getBytes("UTF-16");

If your contents are giving the SAXException: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.