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Invalid Character in Description field?

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TCArknight

Well-known member
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? :)
 
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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