Special Character And Extra Spaces

Hi All,
This may be a simple problem to fix (i hope) but my searching
has found nothing.
When i publish documents from word to contribute i get extra
gibberish in the place of extra spaces and special characters like
dash(–).
extra space = Â
dash = â€“
Hopefully theres a setting i'm missing that will fix the
problem.
I am working with big documents that contain garphics so
exporting to txt format isn't an option.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheers
David

After further experimentation and a close fix i have found
the the pages look fine with a html extension but contain the
gibberish when they have a cfm extension.
Obviously when the files go through the coldfusion server
something happens.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello,
I am using E-business Suite 12.1.3 and XML version 5.6.3.
My XML file is ending up with a special character (a Latin capital letter U with circumflex) at the end, after the final closing tag.
Due to this the concurrent program that needs to output the XML is ending with warning.
My XML file is produced using a PL/SQL procedure, as follows (I've simplified it):
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.OUTPUT,'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>');
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But when I run the concurrent request that creates the output then try to view the output in Internet Explorer I get the following error:
Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'http://servername.domain...
</DOCS>
If I view the source of the page in Internet Explorer it shows a square after </DOCS> indicating the special character that has been added.
I checked this by looking at the output file in unix (cat -v o7766582.req) and it showed up the Latin U character.
I realise it could be to do with the character set I am using. I checked what we had on the server:
> echo $NLS_LANG
American_America.UTF8
I would have thought that corresponded with the XML declaration character set but I'm not sure.
Does anyone have any other ideas about why I have this special character, and how it could be removed?
Thanks in advance,
Hazel

Hi AlexAnd,
thanks very much for your reply.
I'm now unable to recreate the problem since dbms_xmlgen worked. If I switch back to my previous method it works fine!
I'm not sure your suggestion would help, as there were no special characters in the data, the special character was added after the last tag I output. I hard coded the data (as in my example) for testing purposes so there was no SQL in use and the special character was still added at the end of the XML output. But I will definitely give it a try if I get the problem again.
I had the idea that maybe I should have been using FND_FILE.PUT rather than FND_FILE.PUT_LINE but now the error is gone I can't tell if that would have solved the problem either.
I appreciate your input.
Regards
Hazel

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Edited by: oll on 1 mars 2010 20:57
Edited by: oll on 15 mars 2010 21:17

Hi,
Thank you for your answer.
But I already installed french language on apex.
Unfortunately issue occurs yet.
To install the french language I followed these steps :
- I set the NLS_LANG to American_America.AL32UTF8
- sqlplus sys/**** as sysdba
- ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = APEX_030200;
- and I executed the load_fr.sql script
Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
Olivier

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I am facing program, while sending a data to a repository using SOAP XML. The file path which is needed has a special character and this is not getting identified at the target.
here is the brief descriptio.
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2) Using the same data, we generate SOAP XML file and send to a respoitory.
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I am importing the hierarchies with special character £ and once imported it shows as following before the node name:
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hi ,
i have a field that contains the black rectangle special character and when i copy it to the pl/sql's screen it's showing the square bracket. -->
however when i saved the view it turns from to . and this has disrupted my check as follows
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