SAX Exception while importing i18n files (Japanese and Korean)

[Former Community Member]

We are unable to use Japanese and Korean translations in our project.

When importing/installing the i18n files to CRX, we get a cryptic SAX Exception:
 

[ERROR] Error while parsing <...>\vaultclipse\1416246615305\jcr_root\apps\projectX\i18n\ja.xml: org.xml.sax.SAXException: unknown type: 0 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown type: 0 [ERROR] E /apps/projectX/i18n/ja (org.xml.sax.SAXException: unknown type: 0 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown type: 0) E /apps/projectX/i18n/ja (org.xml.sax.SAXException: unknown type: 0 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown type: 0)

We experience this error with Japanese and Korean files, including their regionalized versions, and when importing via any means (Vaultclipse, File Vault CLI, content-package-maven-plugin, CRX Package Manager).  The files are UTF-8 encoded (without BOM), as are the other 30+ i18n files that we are using.  We have run these files through other SAX parsers without issue.

Is there any way to figure out what's going on here?  Is it a known issue?

[ronnyfm]

        Did you find the cause? Getting the same error with en/es/pt dictionaries.

[ranjans87859837]

Special characters in the value field usually cause this. Escaping the special character should fix the issue.