Ooooh. Well, you did well! You have a way to work around the problem, and you have revealed that something is wrong in the XML encoding of non-ASCII characters. The whole system is supposed to be using Unicode, but I can't really figure this out on my own, as I do not really understand all the character encoding business. I know the GUI part is fully Unicode compatible, but if the new file system scanner in Poser 8 is not quite correct, the data cannot even reach the GUI.

Given that you found an XML markup error, this is very interesting and will help SM track down the actual problem.

If you have not already done so, please make a new incident report to SM here.

http://support.smithmicro.com

They will find your particular test case very interesting, and by entering it into the system, it will not get lost the way this thread might.

Thank you for the information!

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