RE: [xsl] encoding issues

["Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Welch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:57 PM
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> Subject: RE: [xsl] encoding issues
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> 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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