title: Accented characters in Android XML
body: <p>i am developping a multi-lingual android app but i am unable to display the special caracters (ex : é or è). I tried to replace the caracters with their reference (&amp;eacute) but it says "The entity &amp;eacute was referenced, but not declared".</p>
  
  <p>XML with special caracters  :
  
  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;string name="welcomeMsg1"&gt;Cette application a été conçu à fin de vous guider.&lt;/string&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>
  When i use the above xml file, the special caracters are not displayed. So i replace the special caracters with their corresponding references.</p>
  
  <p>XML with references : 
  
  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;string name="welcomeMsg1"&gt;Cette application a &amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute; con&amp;ccedil;u &amp;aacute; fin de vous guider.&lt;/string&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>
  The code above generates an error.</p>
  
  <p>I couldn't find a solution so if someone can help i will be very grateful. Thank you</p>