RE: [xsl] Unicode characters being replaced with ??

["Lizzi, Vincent" <Vincent.Lizzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Possibly somewhere you were relying on a character encoding default setting
that changed in one of the upgrades you mentioned. There are many places where
character encoding may be configured or have a default setting.

Setting the output encoding of the stylesheet to US-ASCII or ISO646-US should
cause the HTML output to use Unicode character references, which will normally
work correctly in browsers even when character encoding isn't set properly.
Try:

<xsl:output encoding="ISO646-US" method="html"/>

Or

<xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII" method="html"/>

ISO646-US is more specific, US-ASCII is more commonly recognized, but they are
very similar.

I hope this helps.

Vincent



-----Original Message-----
From: dvint@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:dvint@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:11 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Unicode characters being replaced with ??

I've got an odd problem related to characters like a non breaking space, plus
minus and copyright symbols that have been entered as actual Unicode values
rather than entity references. I'm running a DITA environment on a Linux
server and the pages that are being generated have '??' substituted as hard
characters in the HTML output.

This process has been running fine on a different Linux box and on my local
PC. What has changed are the following things:
- updated Centos
- updated Java
- updated DITA open tool kit

I've seen where output I generate with Unicode characters will sometimes
display in an ASCII editor with some sort of box character, but never a
situation where the actual output has been changed like this. My thought is
that there is some environment setting that is a affecting the way the
stylesheets are producing output.

Has anyone come across this before?

..dan

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