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RE: encoding issues
- From: "Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:11:57 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] encoding issues
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Welch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:57 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] encoding issues
>
>
>
> David, Julian,
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> One thing Im sure of is that I still dont quite 'get it'.
>
> It seems to me that if I write something in French, and put 'this is
> written in French' at the top of it, I would expect whoever (whatever)
> reads it to try and read it in French... rather than trying to read it
> in some other language and then say 'I dont understand these words'.
Yes.
But in this case you putting "this is utf8-encoded in XML", and it is read
by somebody who is expecting HTML. So the declaration simply is ignored.
> Either way, my outputs fine now
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
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