Re: ISO-8859-1 -> "Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence" error with Doxia (maven plugin)

by Vincent Siveton :: Rate this Message:

Hi Serge,

It is a known limitation in the iText plugin. The implementation uses
the deprecated itext xml and the xml encoding is hardcoded to utf-8

Cheers,

Vincent

[1] http://www.lowagie.com/iText/tutorial/ch07.html

2007/11/9, serge.simon@... <serge.simon@...>:

>
> Hello,
> I'm trying to use the Doxia Maven plugin to automatically render .pdf from
> APT and i'm encountering this problem, does any of you have an idea about
> this ?
> The .apt files are encoded in ISO-8859-1 and contain various french
> characters (like accentued characters).
>
> I got the "Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence." error and i really
> don't know how to deal with ISO-8859-1 with this plugin, what should I add
> and where ?
> I've tried to add in my pom.xml the <inputEncoding> and <outputEncoding>
> lines but the behaviour is just the same with or without.
>
> My Doxia "example.xml" file doesn't contain at this time any special
> characters.
> If i set the book configuration to point to plain .apt without any special
> characters only, everything works fine, but as soon as I have french
> national characters in the apt files, i get this error.
>
> I'm using (as far as i know) the last version of the plugin
> ("1.0-alpha-10").
>
> My POM looks like that :
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.doxia</groupId>
> <artifactId>doxia-maven-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>1.0-alpha-10</version>
> <executions>
> <execution>
> <phase>pre-site</phase>
> <goals>
> <goal>render-books</goal>
> </goals>
> </execution>
> </executions>
> <configuration>
> <inputEncoding>iso-8859-1</inputEncoding> 
> <outputEncoding>iso-8859-1</outputEncoding> 
> <books>
> <book>
> <directory>site/</directory>
> <descriptor>pdf/example.xml</descriptor>
> <formats>
> <format>
> <id>pdf</id>
> </format>
> </formats>
> </book>
> </books>
> </configuration>
> </plugin>
>
> Result stacktrace :
>
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Trace
> ExceptionConverter: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte
> UTF-8 sequence.
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:215)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:386)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1810)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
> at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:375)
> at com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlParser.go(Unknown Source)
> at com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlParser.parse(Unknown Source)
> at com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlToXXX.parse(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.maven.doxia.module.itext.ITextUtil.writePdf(ITextUtil.java:118)
> at
> org.apache.maven.doxia.book.services.renderer.PdfBookRenderer.renderXML(PdfBookRenderer.java:50)
> at
> org.apache.maven.doxia.book.services.renderer.AbstractITextBookRenderer.renderBook(AbstractITextBookRenderer.java:162)
> at
> org.apache.maven.doxia.book.DefaultBookDoxia.renderBook(DefaultBookDoxia.java:126)
> at
> org.apache.maven.doxia.plugin.DoxiaRenderBooksMojo.execute(DoxiaRenderBooksMojo.java:214)
> at
> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:443)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:493)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:463)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143)
> at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334)
> at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
> at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
> at
> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
> at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
> at
> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
> at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help about this subject.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Serge.
>
>

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