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Editing mission XML with wordpad - NO!

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I haven't had a lot of time to work on my mission file in FSX lately, so I backed it up and brought it to work, where I've been working on it using wordpad and the GUID generator. After putting together the last 30% of the mission, I put it into FSX to test it out - no mission found. When I clicked on the XML, it gave me errors reading the file. As it turns out, everytime I did an edit with wordpad, when I saved it it played games with the characters.

Some characters were missing altogether. For example, a world position entry would show up as:

<WorldPos tion>

In other cases, characters were substituted, such as:

<Soun?FileName>

When I went and tried doing a few edits with notepad, all was fine.

Anyone else have this problem and if so, do you know why it's happening? I'm just frustrated because I completed the entire flow of checklists from descent briefing to touchdown and now I have to go through and do it all over again! Either that or, step through the XML error by error.

And, I used to edit this way all the time with no problems. ?
 
Don't know what might have happened there. But as it works well in wordpad (not sure if this is the best editor anyway) you can copy it into another editor (like the default MS notepad.exe) and save it there.
 
Hi Folks

This may possibly be due to different default codepage settings on the two PCs
SP1 changed all mission XML to codepage UTF-8

May I suggest Notepad++
as larger missions may not load into the default Notepad.

Notepad++ also supports -
Codepage display
An extended range of filetypes
Syntax highlighting
etc.

See info & download from - Notepad-plus @ sourceforge.net

HTH
ATB
Paul
 
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Actually UTF-8 is an encoding format (Universal Text Format - 8 bit), the code page is Windows-1252 - the previous format was standard 8 bit ASCII.
 
Hi Folks

Ooops
Cheers Tim.

That should have been UTF-8 encoding for multi-language codepage support.

ATB
Paul
 
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