Pound Symbol in File Sender

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are getting a file from Sender where they are sendin the £ symbol.#

PI is unable to pick it up and goes into error.  This is an XML file and does not require any FCC.

Please advise as I can't specify any encoding in the File Sender Communication Channel.

Regards

Krish

[former_member184681 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You don't need to use FCC to specify the required encoding of the sender channel. In your case, set "File Type" = "Text" and provide the required encoding (like ISO-8859-1, or any other, according to your requirement) as File Encoding. Both these fields are in the "Processing" tab page of the sender file communication channel:

Hope this helps,

Greg

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Greg,

Am a bit confused with this encoding stuff.  The XML file which I have received clearly states the following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

So if i use UTF-8 in the sender comms channel, it should pick up the pound symbol. But it didn't, although it worked with your ISO-8859-1.

Regards

Anandh

[former_member184681 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It looks like a nice guess with this ISO-8859-1, then . As a rule, whenever you have the File Type = Binary selected, PI determines the encoding based on the first line of the XML, which says "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>" in your case. When you select File Type = Text and some particular encoding, you enforce using this particular encoding to read the message.

In your particular case, it looks like the XML file is encoded with ISO-8859-1, although the first line says it's UTF-8. So you might want to analyze the sender system for some inconsistencies. Or just leave this ISO encoding as it is, to have it working fine.

Hope this helps,

Greg

[Former Member]

in file sender comm channel, set file type parameter to binary and then see if it resolves the issue.

if it does not solve the issue, then try with file type - text and file encoding UTF-16 and see if it resolves the issue.

[Former Member]

Rajeev,

The channels are already in binary mode only.  We are still getting the issues.

Regards

Krish

[Former Member]

try with file type - text and file encoding UTF-16 and see if it resolves the issue.