Subject: RE: [xsl] ANSI encoding From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:03:18 +0100 |
> > What's the <?xml version="1.0" encoding=""?> encoding="" > string for ANSI? > "ANSI" is the American National Standards Institute, but when used to describe a character set, you probably mean one of the proprietary Microsoft Windows character sets. (Why did they call it ANSI? It's a long story. The original IBM PC character set was a million miles from conforming to any standard. Windows (was it 3.1?) made a big step towards adopting international standards, but Microsoft hadn't quite grasped what conformance meant at that stage. Anyway, the book of international standards that they picked up was published in the US by ANSI, so that's what they called it, even though the standards were mainly European in origin, and even though they modified them). Unless you use the special Microsoft characters in positions x80-x9f, or a codepage other than the Western European one, you can specify encoding="iso-8859-1", which most XML parsers will accept, although they aren't obliged to. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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