MSBUILD and ASCII Copyright

[Flomo Togba Kwele]

Is there a way to create a copyright symbol as output? I've tried and haven't been able to.


<AssemblyInfo CodeLanguage="VB"
OutputFile=".\AssemblyInfo.vb"
AssemblyTitle="App"
AssemblyDescription="App Description"
AssemblyCompany="Company Name"
AssemblyProduct="App"
AssemblyCopyright="Copyright %169 Company Name 2007"
....
/>

Thanks, Flomo
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Is there a way to create a copyright symbol as output?
I've tried and haven't been able to.


<AssemblyInfo CodeLanguage="VB"
OutputFile=".\AssemblyInfo.vb"
AssemblyTitle="App"
AssemblyDescription="App Description"
AssemblyCompany="Company Name"
AssemblyProduct="App"
AssemblyCopyright="Copyright %169 Company Name 2007"
...
/>

If it's in an XML file, you need an XML escape:

AssemblyCopyright="Copyright © Company Name 2007"

I haven't tried that, but I'd expect it to work.

(Point of quibbling - there's no ASCII copyright symbol. ASCII doesn't
include any characters of Unicode > 127.)

 

[Flomo Togba Kwele]

Thanks for the tip, Jon, but it doesn't like those characters.

error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid syntax for a decimal numeric entity
reference.

I thought the escape character for an MSBuild file was '%', that's why I tried it. It output a hex
16 character for the sequence %169.

Flomo

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Thanks for the tip, Jon, but it doesn't like those characters.

error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid syntax
for a decimal numeric entity reference.

Hmm. Odd.

I thought the escape character for an MSBuild file was '%', that's
why I tried it. It output a hex
16 character for the sequence %169.

Well, the version I gave was just the generic way of doing it in XML -
not MS Build specific.

Have you tried just inserting the copyright sign directly into the file
and saving it in UTF-8?

 

[Flomo Togba Kwele]

Yes, I did.

AssemblyCopyright="Copyright © Company Name 2007"

error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid character in the given encoding.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Yes, I did.

AssemblyCopyright="Copyright © Company Name 2007"

error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid
character in the given encoding.

Did you specify the encoding at the start of the file, and are you sure
you saved it *using* that encoding?

 

[Flomo Togba Kwele]

Yes, it was already there.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


However, the MSBuild file itself was encoded ANSI, not UTF-8. When I changed it and re-ran the
script, no error!

Thanks so much, Jon.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Yes, it was already there.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

However, the MSBuild file itself was encoded ANSI, not UTF-8. When I
changed it and re-ran the script, no error!

Thanks so much, Jon.

No problem. I'm still intrigued as to what's wrong with using the
numeric version though. If I ever get time, I'll have a look - it's
unlikely that I *will* get the time though