I used the file node to write an XML file to disk. The XML has UTF-8 special characters like ä, however when written to file it is written as iso-8859, as shown on the linux command line : file original_alert.xml original_alert.xml: XML 1.0 document, ISO-8859 text, with very long lines I am runni…

elmicha 18 March 2019 22:24 3

This was broken in 0.19.5 and fixed in 0.19.6. Current is 0.20.2.

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Writing using file node UTF-8, encoding becomes iso-8859

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