RE: [xsl] character entities

["Edward Bryant" <bryant_edward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > So what is the accepted way to add character references to
> > the output? Would I have to run some kind of find-and-replace script > 
> after the XSLT transformation? What do other people do?
>
> You shouldn't care whether characters in the output are represented as
> themselves or as character references. No process that consumes the output
> XML or HTML is going to make a distinction, so it doesn't matter. Leave it
> to the serializer to decide. If you want to look at the output in a text
> editor, choose an encoding that your text editor can handle, and the
> serializer will do the rest.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/

If that were true, it would be fine with me. I am not trying to output 
character references just for the sake of doing it. I was under the 
impression that I should try to do it because some browsers would have a 
problem with UFT-8 encoded data. Specifically, articles such as this one at 
A List Apart:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/emen/

claim that "many more browsers choke on UTF-8 characters than do on named 
entities." Yet you claim that there is no distinction?

Is this true or isn't it?