[scribus] Unusual message on save.

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:11:40 am Gregory Pittman wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > I have a one-page sample file with one text window, as simple as
> > can be. But I get this message when I save the sla file:
> >
> > QDom: saving invalid character , the document will not be
> > well-formed
> >
> > This is repeated 5 times. I have 3 em dashes but no other unusual
> > characters. I use URW Palladio and URW Palladio italic.
> >
> > The text was imported from an ASCII file.
>
> I'm not sure why this is happening, but this is the character used
> in 1.3.3.x and earlier for a soft carriage-return, and causes
> problems if you use an xml parser.
> Have never seen it within Scribus while saving though. Perhaps it's
> in the ASCII file?
>
> Maybe try saving the text to a file, then re-importing to the
> frame.
>
> Greg

The text file was saved from OO Writer. I pulled up the file in gvim 
but saw no special characters. Will review it in od. 

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