Hi, I need to use special characters (from portuguese, pt-br) like ç, ã and so forth, in a flow, specifically to write to a xml file. At the debug window on node-red, the characters looks all correct but when writing to disk, the special charcaters get messed. The xml is being writtern as this: <?…

done @ukmoose , thanks for pointing that out

Taking your flow and using MacOS it outputs the special characters. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><video><title>joão</title><keywords>palavras,chave</keywords><description>descrição</description></video> What are you using to read the file?

I tested your flow and got the special characters correctly spelled/printed/displayed in the file name as well as in the xml content (opened with notepad++). Also all looks good in Node-RED debug. My setup is Node-REd running in Windows10. [r-01] [r-02]

I wonder why your file has been generated with such forward slash at the end of the title tag. <title/> Or perhaps this issue was introduced when you copy and pasted the excerpt to this post thread ?

I'm guessing its because the flow that generated that didn't include a title hence undefined.xml

Hi @Andrei , the title tag is like that cause the title value was somehow broken due to the special character. My file was named undefined.xml .. I forgot to mention node-red is writing to and installed in a debian 9 machine. The strange thing is that now I get the joão.xml written ok and as @ukmoo…

[image] deedos: I'm appending that xml to a http form to send to a API. the api is reading it wrongly as well I guess the better place to look now is on how you build the http request. I guess you are using an http request node in your flow, right ? Can you share this part of this config (r…

[image] deedos: The one I pasted in this thread was a "cat" command from the linux terminal. If I open with gedit on a Ubuntu machine, It reads correctly. That may be down to whether the application you are using to view it is using a font containing those characters.

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please read How to share code or flow json and the edit the code you posted

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