# "undefined" - if XML attribute contains German special chars (üõöä)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/undefined-if-xml-attribute-contains-german-special-chars-uooa/243617>\
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**Created:** [November 8, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/undefined-if-xml-attribute-contains-german-special-chars-uooa/243617 "2007-11-08T22:52:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/undefined-if-xml-attribute-contains-german-special-chars-uooa/243617/1 "2007-11-08T22:52:27Z")

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Hello!  
I found out that if XML file’s attribute contains German special chars (chars with umlaut, like: üõöä - ä ü ö) then I get “undefined” answer when I try to read an attributes value. I tryed to change XML file encoding to: “UTF-8” and “iso-8859-1” but still no luck. "system.useCodepage = true; " doesn’t help as well :-/