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RE: Character entities
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Character entities
- From: "Beckers, Marc" <Marc dot Beckers at softwareag dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:14:54 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> Like XML, HTML 4.0 is mostly defined in terms of UCS/Unicode
> characters,
> which of course must be encoded. There is a mechanism for a
> document to
> signal its own character encoding via a META declaration.
> This could be
> overridden by a charset parameter in an HTTP Content-Type header.
>
> This stuff is discussed at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/charset.html#sp
Thanks for this, Mike.
If we generate the line
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html" charset="UTF-8">
in the HEAD of our output HTML, hey presto.
What was that about wood and trees...?
Marc
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