String decoding

[simonedd]

I have a file with some "special" characters, as in the following Beam definition.
#857=IFCBEAM('3Lt4H72Y9CHQEeh3VllZNY',#6,'\S\Z\S\�l. n\S\ametk. krokev',$,$,#821,#840,$);

After the parsing, the instance of the Beam is empty.
{#857=IFCBEAM('3Lt4H72Y9CHQEeh3VllZNY',#6,$,$,$,$,$,$);}

Thanks.

[martin1cerny]

IFC file is defined to be an ASCII file. Your example seems to combine Unicode(or some other encoding) and IFC string encoding. This is likely causing the scanner to fail to parse the data. Bear in mind this is an illegal IFC file.

[simonedd]

Sorry to come back to this so late. I agree, but you should skip invalid characters instead of failing the reading of the entire entity. All other readers I've tried can import the entity.