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# XML Encoding * * * XML documents can contain non-ASCII characters, such as Norwegian æ ø å, or French ê è é. To avoid errors, you need to specify an XML encoding, or save your XML file as Unicode. * * * ## XML Encoding Errors If you load an XML document, you may encounter two different errors indicating encoding issues: **Invalid character found in text content.** If your XML contains non-ASCII characters and the file is saved as a single-byte ANSI (or ASCII) without specifying an encoding, you will receive an error. ( ( **Switching Current Encoding to an Unsupported Specified Encoding** If your XML file is saved as a double-byte Unicode (or UTF-16) with a specified single-byte encoding (WINDOWS-1252, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8), you will get an error. Similarly, if your XML file is saved as a single-byte ANSI (or ASCII) with a specified double-byte encoding (UTF-16), you will also encounter an error. ( ( * * * ## Windows Notepad Windows Notepad saves files by default as single-byte ANSI (ASCII). If you choose "Save As...", you can specify ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode (UTF-16), or Unicode Big. Save the following XML as ANSI, UTF-8, and Unicode (note that the document does not include any encoding attributes). Jani Tove Norwegian: æøå. French: êèé Try dragging the file into your browser and see the results. Different browsers will display different outcomes. Experiences with Different Encodings: Please try: ( ( * * * ## Conclusion * Always use encoding attributes * Use editors that support encoding *