Invalid Character in Description field?

TCArknight · April 13th, 2016, 12:32 PM

Hi all!

I'm trying to build some datafiles and copying text off of a webpage. When I do though. I often get this error:

Code:

Hero Lab was forced to stop compilation after the following errors were detected:

File: thing_X.dat (line XX) - Thing '<thing id>' - Invalid characters used in string for attribute 'description'

Does anyone have any suggestions, or better yet tools/programs to handle this kind of thing?

Mathias · April 13th, 2016, 12:47 PM

Usually, this means that one of the characters in the text you copied from that page does not have a representation in the UTF-8 encoding that Hero Lab files must be written in.

Does your text editor have settings that will let you enforce a particular XML encoding?

Mathias Senior Member Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 13,213 April 13th, 2016, 12:47 PM	Usually, this means that one of the characters in the text you copied from that page does not have a representation in the UTF-8 encoding that Hero Lab files must be written in. Does your text editor have settings that will let you enforce a particular XML encoding?
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