Trading API error - org.xml.sax.SAXParseException

[breun57]

I am using VerifyAddItem

I get a parse error when I have an Umlaut (ä) in the Description XML.  If i replace it with an (a) , everything works fine.

Entire description as follows:

Antique, German historical work elaborating on the history of the Romans. The author, Oskar Jäger, was the Director of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Köln and an honorary professor at the University of Bonn. This tenth edition includes 183 illustrations, 2 chromolithographs, and 2 maps, indicating its extensive use as an educational resource.

ANY IDEAS?

[shipscript · Accepted solution]

@breun57 

Bay's File Exchange (based on Excel and the Trading API) had the same issue.  A problem arose when the file encoding was set to UTF-8, but worked fine when set to ISO-8859-1 or CP1252. You might fiddle with the encoding of the uploaded document.

[breun57]

Thanks for the feedback

Looking closer, As an isolated failure test case, i only need to replace the umlaut-a  in Jäger of the string below with a regular a and it works fine.  I coding looks like valid multibyte  alright.

J\xc3\xa4ger

<Description>Antique, German historical work elaborating on the history of the Romans. The author, Oskar Jäger, was the Director of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Köln and an honorary professor at the University of Bonn. This tenth edition includes 183 illustrations, 2 chromolithographs, and 2 maps, indicating its extensive use as an educational resource.</Description>

[breun57]

Yes ISO-8859-1 is the answer.  Python only allows it as byte-strings.  Any string operation converts it back to UTF-8. The eBay Trading API doesn't like my German double byte characters.

THANKS A BUNCH FOR YOUR HELP!