Re: [xsl] Encoding attribute

[Christian Beutenmueller <beutenmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fran schrieb:

> Its a bit silly mad question because depending on the browser it shows me
> differents character with the same XSL code.
> My IE has ISO West by default and it shows "€" character only when I change
> after to UTF-8 and Netscape 7.1 has by default the same codification but
> shows the correct character when I change to ISO-8859-15 codification.
No, it's simple:
- ISO Latin 1 (aka ISO-8859-1, what M$ calls ISO West)
has no euro sign.
- ISO Latin 9 (aka ISO-8859-15) is basically the same as Latin 1, but 
some characters changed, and the euro sign has been added [1].
- UTF-8 is a unicode character set, and unicode has the euro sign.

Greets
Christian

[1] http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin9.html
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