Re: [xsl] Problems with characters

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Ragulf Pickaxe wrote:
> Well, actually I do seem to have more problems because I deleted a comment 
> in the second stylesheet and it suddently worked, showing the right 
> characters(!).

Luck :)

> Then I tried oppening a new window, not changing anything, and it showed it 
> wrongly (again).

See? :)

> Aarrrrgh!
> 
> I think Mike Brown is right that I have to trace the data from it's source 
> to the output, but with this kind of behavior...?

I can only repeat what I said. There are so many possible points of failure.
Databases are notoriously bad when it comes to proper and easy-to-utilize 
support for Unicode and arbitrarily-encoded text.

Most problems will go away if people stop treating encoded text as text, and
instead think of it as opaque binary bit streams that must be decoded
according to some character map that is either externally known or is
self-declared in the data itself (as XML files do). Unfortunately, databases
and their interfaces tend not to do that in a consistent and friendly 
manner...

   - Mike
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