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AW: AW: Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl > UTF-8 ?
- From: "Braumüller, Hans" <h dot braumueller at hanseorga dot de>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:11:30 +0200
- Subject: AW: AW: [xsl] Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl > UTF-8 ?
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Hi,
great, now i understand. So i must get an enabled UTF-8 text-editor, i am
using homesite and sometimes ultraedit. It seems that they have no UTF-8
support.
Do you know one?
Thanks,
Hans Braumüller
> Any time you save a text file or transmit it over a network,
> you have a series
> of bytes representing the characters in the document. The
> encoding is how
> those bytes map to characters.
>
> UTF-8 maps all 1.1 million Unicode characters to a series of
> 1 to 4 bytes per
> character. You certainly do have those German characters
> available in utf-8,
> but instead of being mapped to 1 byte each, as they would be
> in iso-8859-1,
> they are mapped to 2 bytes each.
>
> A text editor that doesn't tell you what encoding it is using
> when you save
> the document is probably relying on the underlying OS to make
> encoding/decoding decisions, and it probably isn't using
> Unicode internally at
> all; rather it just manages buffers of bytes fed to it by the
> OS. Solution:
> get a smarter text editor that lets you choose the encoding
> to save files
> with.
>
> The encoding declaration in an XML document is a reflection
> of the actual
> encoding used *throughout* file. You must not save a file with all the
> characters encoded as iso-8859-1 bytes, while having
> encoding="utf-8" in the
> file, for example. You must also avoid mixing encodings in
> the same file (some
> characters using one encoding, some using another).
>
> - Mike
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