The specific article helps to fix a problem when trying to use the GossipXrefsMerge.bat file to migrate connection from ALM synchronizer to MF Connect.

Environment

MF Connect 24.2

Situation

When trying to use the GossipXrefsMerge.bat to migrate a connection from ALM Synchronizer to MF Connect 24.2, the following error message appears, which interrupts the process: 

[Fatal Error]:114:48: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
Exception in thread "main" org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 114: column number:48; .....

Cause

The issue is caused due to a special character in the Exported synchronizer Link(in the LinkConfig.xml file).

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