Re: [xsl] Seeking a valid mdash

Just saw that my mailer dropped the mdash characters I want to show.
They appear in my text editor as â\200\224, or, in hex mode, e2 80 94.
When pasted in here as â?", or the ? replaced by an empty rectangular
box:  â€”


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William BC Crandall" <bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "William BC Crandall" <bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 18 July 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Seeking a valid mdash


>
> Thanks to René, who caught the typo (did not change the result),
> and to Jarno, for suggesting a test in Firebird (Page Info says:
> "Encoding: UTF-8"), and David who questioned the validator.
>
> I now have more clarity, but still the same problem.
>
>
> The W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/), takes in this test file:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>   <head>
>     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>     <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
>     <title>[Test validate: mdash]</title>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <p>
>       There is an mdash here:
>     </p>
>     <p>
>       Here is another: &#8212;
>     </p>
>   </body>
> </html>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and reports:
>
>    "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 13 it
>    contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as us-ascii (in
>    other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified
>    Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and
>    the character encoding indication."
>
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Why does the validator see this file as us-ascii encoded?
>
> 2. What instructions/code can I put into a source xml document that
> will produce the ascii string "&#8212;" in my xml/xhtml output document?
>
> Thanks again for any thoughts.
>
> William BC Crandall
> Post Office Box 187
> Lagunitas, CA 94938
> bc.crandall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>


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