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Lars Larsen
Lars Larsen
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Posted on 04/02/2019 15:45:31

Hi

When Dynamicweb saves an itemtype to the filesystem as an XML file it saves it as an UTF-8 encoded file. But in the mark up it says "UTF-16":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" standalone="yes"?>

Isn't this a bug? Wouldn't it make sense to change the markup to reflect the encoding the file is saved in?

It has the consequence that when you make a change to an itemtype XML document within Visual Studio and saves the file VS saves the file with UNICODE encoding. Now Git sees the file as a binary file which makes it difficult to compare the previous and current version of the file. 


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 04/02/2019 23:24:53
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Maybe... I never had any issues with this.

The string writer that is used by the XML serializer is in utf16 by default I think - I do not know if switching file encoding to utf16 or xml to utf8 would cause issues with compatibility.

Any others in here have any issues with the format?

BR Nicolai

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 05/02/2019 00:00:19
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Hi guys,

I had issues in the past when editing XML files. Mostly with editing Job xml's.

But I am not sure if the above issue was the cause for it.

Adrian

 

 

 
Lars Larsen
Lars Larsen
Posted on 05/02/2019 09:29:27
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Hi

I fixed the issue by adding an ".editorconfig" to the folder "/Files/System/Items". I have configured the file to ensure that the xml documents within the folder are always saved in UTF-8 when edited with VS.

But I think it's odd that DW saves the itemtype xml documents with UTF-8 encoding and still in the first line of the xml documents it says "encoding='utf-16'" !!

 

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