xmlsectool bug

[Ian Young]

On 11 Dec 2013, at 15:42, Tom Scavo <trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the entity descriptor with
> entityID="https://webauth.umaryland.edu/idp/shibboleth", on line
> #15577 of the InCommon metadata file:
> 
> "The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the State[BAD
> CHARACTER HERE]s public health..."

In the file, the octet sequence is 0xC2, 0xB9. I believe that's a valid UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character U+00B9. This is SUPERSCRIPT ONE: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/b9/index.htm

So it's valid, which is why the Shibboleth stuff is not claiming there's a problem. Of course it is unlikely that the registrant intended SUPERSCRIPT ONE here. It's more likely that they intended an apostrophe, or something like that; the question would be how it got that way. In my experience, it's most likely some sort of conversion to/from something like Microsoft Word.

	-- Ian



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