<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr">I am testing the current windows version of Shib SP. I brought over a bunch of stanzas for metadata from my 2.3.1 prod version and I get this error:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop>C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\sbin\shibd -check</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">2015-02-20 13:39:40 ERROR XMLTooling.ParserPool : fatal error on line 1, column 1, message: invalid byte ' ' at position 2 of a 2-byte sequence</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">2015-02-20 13:39:40 ERROR Shibboleth.Config : error while loading resource (C:/opt/shibboleth-sp/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml): XML error(s) during parsing, check log for specifics</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">2015-02-20 13:39:40 FATAL Shibboleth.Config : caught exception while loading configuration: XML error(s) during parsing, check log for specifics</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">configuration is invalid, check console for specific problems</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style=""><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">Turns out this error was caused by this character: ö</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style=""><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style="">Moreover, that character was inside a comment like this: <!-- The Name of the enterprise metadata öwner -->. 2.3.1 had no issue with that character. Is this a bug? Just curious. I can get rid of the umlaut blessed O and the issue is resolved but was curious why this occurred.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424468997651_9338" dir="ltr" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>