I am trying to load an XML which has special characters such as ö and ® into XElement. But I get an error saying “Invalid character in the given encoding”. Where do I set the encoding so that I will be able to load the string?
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I am trying to load an XML which has special characters such as ö and ® into XElement. But I get an error saying “Invalid character in the given encoding”. Where do I set the encoding so that I will be able to load the string?
You could set the encoding in the first line of the XML file:
Could you show your XML file?