Hi everyone,
like the headline says I have a problem, getting values out of a utf-8 encoded xml file when special characters are included.

The parts that doesn't worg look like this:
a wrote a script where I execute xml_grep:

When the script reaches "München" and "weiß" my output file contains "München" and "WeiÃ<9f>". It's my first time using xml_grep and I tried using --encoding option - without success.

I hope it is possible to use xml_grep with specail chars, otherwise I have to write these parts of the script using compatible commands.

Thanks!
Effman

For 'München' try 'M\ünchen'
For 'weiß' try 'wei\ß'

I'd try to get the grep working off the command line, because xml-grep probably passers some variables or defaults to grep when calling grep.

you may try --encoding also you may try to check the LC_* variables (locale settings)

Thanks for your answers. Using \ is no option for me. The xml file contains around 100.000 lines with all kinds of special chars so I am not able to change all of them.

I tried it with --encoding and added utf-8 to the LC variables, same result.

I meant use it in the grep, not the xml. I should have made that clear. Changing every instance of an expression in 100,000 lines of code is not daunting if you have mastered sed.