ErrorMessage, hexadecimal value 0x1E, is an invalid character.
Thread poster: Jean-Paul Salaün (X)
Jean-Paul Salaün (X)
Jean-Paul Salaün (X)  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 16:43
English to French
Aug 6, 2014

I am translating a huge manual of 56,000 words.

There are several files, one of which accounts 15,000 words.

The original file is in RTF (Word).

the translation went well even if it is full of tags.
I can generate te target translation in RTF

but i when try to export for a review i get the following error
"hexadecimal value 0x1E, is an invalid character."


Need help on this one
Thanks


 
Jean-Paul Salaün (X)
Jean-Paul Salaün (X)  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 16:43
English to French
TOPIC STARTER
ErrorMessage, hexadecimal value 0x1E, is an invalid character. Aug 6, 2014

Forget to tell
working with Studio 2014


 
Eccella
Eccella
Singapore
Local time: 04:43
Me too Aug 14, 2014

I have the same problem too. out of 5 word files 2 have the problem. i do not understand why this happen.

 
Remy Blaettler
Remy Blaettler
Local time: 21:43
German to English
+ ...
Just clean them out manually in Notepad++ Aug 14, 2014

This happens sometimes if the source file you get has invalid characters.
You can just clean them out manually in a normal text editor like Notepad++

I've shown the steps here:

http://tradoserrors.tumblr.com/post/32808305537/today-hexadecimal-value-0x1f-is-an-invalid


Rimvydas Kuzas
 
Jean-Paul Salaün (X)
Jean-Paul Salaün (X)  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 16:43
English to French
TOPIC STARTER
ErrorMessage, hexadecimal value 0x1E, is an invalid character. Aug 14, 2014

Thank you Remy.

 
gra
gra  Identity Verified
English to Spanish
Thank you Remy Oct 8, 2014

Dear Remy,

Thanks so much for your help! Same error, same dispair, finally resolved (or think so.)

Graciela


 
Konstantin Stäbler
Konstantin Stäbler  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 21:43
English to German
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Thanks! Jan 22, 2015

Thank you Remy!

 
gra
gra  Identity Verified
English to Spanish
HELP AGAIN , Hexadecimal value 0x1E is an invalid character Apr 17, 2015

gra wrote:

Dear Remy,

Thanks so much for your help! Same error, same dispair, finally resolved (or think so.)

Graciela


The same problem again!!! But this Remy's solution is not working any more

I followed your suggestions but couldn't find any invalid character. Any idea how to solve this mess?

The Word file may be saved as target but can't be exported for external review. No mention about segment number where the possible error is.

Thank you!

Graciela


 
Arianne Farah
Arianne Farah  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 16:43
Member (2008)
English to French
Thank you :-) needed this today! Sep 18, 2015

Remy Blaettler wrote:

This happens sometimes if the source file you get has invalid characters.
You can just clean them out manually in a normal text editor like Notepad++

I've shown the steps here:

http://tradoserrors.tumblr.com/post/32808305537/today-hexadecimal-value-0x1f-is-an-invalid


Thank you Remy

My error was 0x1E but after opening the sdxliff in Notepad and searching for & # x 1 E ; I found the rogue dash '-' and replaced it - problem solved

[Edited because the code wouldn't appear unless spaces were added at 2015-09-18 14:35 GMT]

[Edited at 2015-09-18 14:36 GMT]


 
Giuseppina Gatta, MA (Hons)
Giuseppina Gatta, MA (Hons)
English to Italian
+ ...
Solved in a different way Jul 27, 2016

First thing, I'd like to thank you all for all your suggestions. I made a "collage" of different solutions, since all that was explained didn't work with my problem. What I did was comparing the original SDL file with the one that didn't work using Notepad++. I found errors which were not even indicated by the validation tools. I just copied and pasted the lines which gave me problems from the original SDL file to the one I could not open, and it worked.

 
Charles Stanford
Charles Stanford  Identity Verified
Czech Republic
Local time: 21:43
Member (2008)
Czech to English
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Brilliant Remy Jul 20, 2017

Thanks so much - saved my bacon

 
Rimvydas Kuzas
Rimvydas Kuzas  Identity Verified
Lithuania
Local time: 22:43
English to Lithuanian
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Solved! Dec 24, 2018

Remy Blaettler wrote:

This happens sometimes if the source file you get has invalid characters.
You can just clean them out manually in a normal text editor like Notepad++

I've shown the steps here:

http://tradoserrors.tumblr.com/post/32808305537/today-hexadecimal-value-0x1f-is-an-invalid



YES, that worked to me Thank you so much.


 
Ricardo Castaño
Ricardo Castaño
Colombia
Local time: 15:43
English to Spanish
+ ...
Hidden character Jan 28, 2020

Remy Blaettler wrote:

This happens sometimes if the source file you get has invalid characters.
You can just clean them out manually in a normal text editor like Notepad++

I've shown the steps here:

http://tradoserrors.tumblr.com/post/32808305537/today-hexadecimal-value-0x1f-is-an-invalid


Thanks this saved my day.


 


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