MSBUILD and ASCII Copyright -- dotnet framework

Flomo Togba Kwele
5/30/2007 4:06:58 PM

Thanks for the tip, Jon, but it doesn't like those characters.

error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid syntax for a decimal numeric entity
reference.

I thought the escape character for an MSBuild file was '%', that's why I tried it. It output a hex
16 character for the sequence %169.

Flomo
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Flomo Togba Kwele
5/30/2007 4:58:35 PM

Yes, I did.

AssemblyCopyright="Copyright © Company Name 2007"

error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid character in the given encoding.
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Flomo Togba Kwele
5/30/2007 5:28:24 PM

Yes, it was already there.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

However, the MSBuild file itself was encoded ANSI, not UTF-8. When I changed it and re-ran the
script, no error!

Thanks so much, Jon.
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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]
5/30/2007 7:33:10 PM

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If it's in an XML file, you need an XML escape:

AssemblyCopyright="Copyright © Company Name 2007"

I haven't tried that, but I'd expect it to work.

(Point of quibbling - there's no ASCII copyright symbol. ASCII doesn't
include any characters of Unicode > 127.)

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]
5/30/2007 10:25:24 PM

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Hmm. Odd.

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Well, the version I gave was just the generic way of doing it in XML -
not MS Build specific.

Have you tried just inserting the copyright sign directly into the file
and saving it in UTF-8?

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]
5/30/2007 11:13:00 PM

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Did you specify the encoding at the start of the file, and are you sure=20
you saved it *using* that encoding?

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]
5/30/2007 11:35:54 PM

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No problem. I'm still intrigued as to what's wrong with using the
numeric version though. If I ever get time, I'll have a look - it's
unlikely that I *will* get the time though :(

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