[OpenLayers-Users] WFS GetFeature w/French char in response = null ptr in IE

[Michael]

Interesting problem.  I wonder whether this is an OpenLayers issue or a 
broader XML issue.

Here is a discussion of those pesky non-English characters in XML: 
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp

Do you have control of the featureMember's attribute value?  Can you 
convert to unicode?

mm

On 8/31/2011 10:37 AM, myOpenLayersUName wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to use the OpenLayers.Control.GetFeature with an
> OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.fromWMSLayer protocol.
>
> When there is a French character in a featureMember's attribute value the
> selection fails in IE (works in FF) with a null pointer exception because
> the responseText's XML can't be parsed properly. The issue, as far as I can
> tell, is that either the OpenLayers.Request.POST is supposed to indicate
> that the "Content-Type" will be "text/xml; charset=utf-8" rather than just
> "text/xml" or that the OpenLayers.Format.XML read function is supposed to
> attach the proper "Content-Type" somehow (not real clear on that one but it
> seems to be how it is working in FF).
>
> There doesn't appear to be any way to pass the "Content-Type" config to the
> OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.v1 read's OpenLayers.Request.POST and I'm leery of
> overriding that read function to force this because I have a feeling it will
> have ramifications beyond just this little problem I'm having for a
> particular layer.
>
> Has anyone come across this in this area before and, if so, how did you
> avert the null pointer exception?
>
> Cheers,
> jtm
>
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