xml nant and ó character

Question

I trying to use nant to build a solution via msbuild. The problem is the solution´s directory is:

C:\Repositorio\Proyectos Casino\SPPM\Codificación\PokerManager

as yo can see it got an specia character ó

this is my build file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?>
<project name="Simple" default="copy">
<property name="nantcontrib-dir"
   value="${path::combine(nant::get-base-directory(), '..\..\nantcontrib-0.85')}" overwrite="false" />

<property name="dest-dir"
   value="C:\temp\nant\table\full-release" overwrite="true" />

<property name="remote-dir"
   value="C:\temp\nant\table\full-release" overwrite="true" />


<property name="cleandir"
   value="C:\temp\nant\table" overwrite="false" />



<property name="pm-soldir"
   value ="C:\Repositorio\Proyectos Casino\SPPM\Codificación\PokerManager\PokerManager.sln" />



<loadtasks assembly=
    "${path::combine(nantcontrib-dir,'bin/NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.dll')}" 
 /> 
<target name="build-PokerManager"
        description="Builds all C# code">

<property name="nant.settings.currentframework" value="net-4.0"/>
  <msbuild project="${pm-soldir}">
    <property name="Configuration"
              value="release" />
    <property name="OutputPath" value="${dest-dir}"/>

  </msbuild>
</target>


<target name="copy" depends="build-PokerManager">
     <copy todir="${remote-dir}">
    <fileset basedir="${dest-dir}">
        <include name="**/*" />
    </fileset>
</copy>
    </target>



</project>

when i run it i get

build-PokerManager:

BUILD FAILED

C:\Juan Pablo\Release Maker\ForTablet\NAnt\table-releases.build(30,4):
'C:\Repositorio\Proyectos Casino\SPPM\Codifica
ci?n\PokerManager\PokerManager.sln' is not a valid value for attribute 'project'
 of <msbuild ... />.
    not valid characters in path..

Total time: 0.1 seconds.

i´ve tried using utf-8 and unicode but it didn´t work

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I think Spudley is on the right track; Shouldn't <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?> be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>. Ascii doesn't do so well with Unicode characters...

Answer 2

UTF-8 encoding should work, but possibly something in your system doesn't like dealing with it?

In the absence of UTF-8, have you tried entity encoding?

The ó character would encode to an XML entity code of Ó. This should work in your XML regardless of what the character encoding is.

(but don't just string replace that one character -- use a proper entity encoding function, so you can be sure you catch any other stray characters you've got lurking around, now or in the future)