JENA RDF Validation error

Question

I have an RDF file named SEALTriples.nt and I am validating that using the command

riot.bat --validate SEALTriples.nt

It is throwing the following error:

ERROR [line: 15858, col: 82] Bad character encoding

When I went to the RDF file the line has no error; I am sure because I copied that line and used it in another RDF file and that never returned any error. Any idea what can be the cause for this?

Answer 1

It is possible that file looks right on windows but isn't. N-triples files are UTF-8. If the text is actually Windows local code page it will look right when displayed (Windows native display) but isn't UTF-8.

Answer 2

I was able to find the problem. Actually there was a '\' in the object section which was creating the problem. Removing that made everything OK.