# mvdXML Rule Grammar and utf-8?

**URL:** https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/mvdxml-rule-grammar-and-utf-8/2442
**Category:** MVDs
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/mvdxml-rule-grammar-and-utf-8/2442 "2020-02-25T14:17:05Z")
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### Author: ![sergej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@sergej](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/sergej)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/mvdxml-rule-grammar-and-utf-8/2442/4 "2020-07-22T11:32:15Z")

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As I suggested with the snippet for UNICODE\_ESC. You can find it in the lexer rules. In my opinion, this is not necessary (due to UTF-8 in XML), but it is available if you would like to encode any special characters.

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