INVOIC96a to EDI-XML by Conversion Agent fails, Special Character Problem

Hi,
with your help in another thread, I recognized that the EDIFACT INVIOC96a Parser of the Itemfield Conversion Agent has a Problem with special characters.
So like described in this blog SAP XI supports EDIFACT i created a Library Project and tried to test the conversion.
It is only working when no special characters are in the EDI file. If there a special characters insight the file, conversion agent say's no error, but the xml file is corrupted. In fact you can't display it in IE or by opening it with XMLPad it says "Not well formed".
Hope that someone has an idea for this problem
Thank you
regards

Hi,
I have already faced the same problem when using Itemfield Conversion Agent.
I solved the same with change properties of the project.
In conversion agent project :
opne the menu : Project --> Properties --> Encoding --> Change the output Encoding Schema (None).
use None in that schema in place of XML.
Your problem can be solved.
Regards,
Sandeep Kaushik

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