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XML Unicode problem
I’m using some PC software which generates XML files containing timeline information, and trying to import the XML into Final Cut Pro 6.0.4.
I’ve got 5 XML files. Three of them work absolutely fine but for absolutely no reason I can see, two of them refuse to import, with a “critical error”.
When I try to drag those XML files into TextEdit, I get an error “The document ep02_fcp.xml could not be opened. Text encoding Unicode (UTF-8) is not applicable.”
However when I load the XML files into TextPad on a PC, all 5 open with no problems, so I can’t see why these 2 would be ‘not Unicode’ when to my eyes they definitely are.
Has anyone else had this problem or could somebody point me in the right direction?
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2 Replies
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The problem is probably either the encoding or the line endings. Windows uses CRLF, Classic Mac uses CR and unix uses LF. Get yourself a better text editor for your mac (TextWrangler, Smultron and SubEthaEdit are all good), open the files and save them as Unicode (UTF-8) and with Unix line endings.
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Thanks. It was the program that was generating the XML that was at fault- it was declaring at the top of the XML file that it was UTF-8, then it was inserting non-UTF-8 character information in some of the captions.
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