Re: [xsl] character map "range" in XSLT

["steve.majewski@xxxxxxxxx" <steve.majewski@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 12, 2010, at 3:27 PM, David wrote:

> > What version of *x are you using ? On my RedHat FC11 there is no  
> > such option.

Mac OSX.
Sorry: I just checked on FedoraCore 12 and that version doesn't  
support that switch.
( I wrongly assumed GNU iconv would be pretty much the same on both. )

Mac: $ iconv --version
iconv (GNU libiconv 1.11)
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There  
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
PURPOSE.
Written by Bruno Haible.


Fedora: $ iconv --version
iconv (GNU libc) 2.11.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There  
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
PURPOSE.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.


> > -------------------------
> > David A. Lee
> > dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.calldei.com
> > http://www.xmlsh.org
> >
> > On May 12, 2010, at 2:56 PM, David wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, but I dont see anything in the man page for iconv thats me  
> > > specify a range of invalid  and a substitution string for them.
> >
> >
> > The invalid range is determined by the destination encoding. Use:   
> > '-t US-ASCII'
> >
> >
> >       --unicode-subst=formatstring
> >              When  this  option  is  given, Unicode characters that  
> > cannot be
> >              represented in the target encoding are replaced  with   
> > a  place-
> >              holder  string  that is constructed from the given  
> > formatstring,
> >              applied to the Unicode code point. The formatstring   
> > must  be  a
> >              format  string  in  the same format as for the printf  
> > command or
> >              the printf() function, taking either no argument or  
> > exactly  one
> >              unsigned integer argument.
> >
> > Use that option: --unicode-subst='<UNKNOWN_CHARACTER>' to set the  
> > replacement string.
> > ( assuming unicode input )
> >
> > -- Steve Majewski