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RE: Using accented characters in XML
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Using accented characters in XML
- From: Mike McGraw <mmcgraw at 724 dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:36:46 -0400
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The output was "Éditez un admin"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Black [mailto:enigma@turingstudio.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:27 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Using accented characters in XML
>
>
> > To answer the original question, it is an encoding issue
> that will be solved
> > if he makes sure that his XML document properly declares its actual
> > encoding. I think he's leaving off the encoding declaration
> and it is
> > defaulting to UTF-8, when in fact the file is iso-8859-1
> encoded. As the
> > bytes for Éditez are read in, this is what happens:
>
> Am I correct in assuming that were he to include that
> encoding declaration,
> along with the accented É - the xslt processor would not have
> a problem, but
> the _output_ would still contain the original character,
> _not_ its encoded
> counterpart?
>
> i.e. if he were going to html, it would look like this:
> <b>Éditez</b> (which isn't correct)
>
> not
>
> <b>Éditez</b>
> or
> <b>Éditez</b>
>
> The last two being synonymous assuming you're using an html dtd, and
> correct.
>
> ?
>
> _alex
>
>
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