Subject: Re: AW: [xsl] Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl > UTF-8 ? From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:29:20 -0600 (MDT) |
"Braumüller, Hans" wrote: > what i don´t understand regarding UTF-8 is that besides is has a bigger > charset, you cannot use special german special characters like ü, ö ,ä ,so > we must continue for german with encoding="iso-8859-1" . > > What i am missing? Any time you save a text file or transmit it over a network, you have a series of bytes representing the characters in the document. The encoding is how those bytes map to characters. UTF-8 maps all 1.1 million Unicode characters to a series of 1 to 4 bytes per character. You certainly do have those German characters available in utf-8, but instead of being mapped to 1 byte each, as they would be in iso-8859-1, they are mapped to 2 bytes each. A text editor that doesn't tell you what encoding it is using when you save the document is probably relying on the underlying OS to make encoding/decoding decisions, and it probably isn't using Unicode internally at all; rather it just manages buffers of bytes fed to it by the OS. Solution: get a smarter text editor that lets you choose the encoding to save files with. The encoding declaration in an XML document is a reflection of the actual encoding used *throughout* file. You must not save a file with all the characters encoded as iso-8859-1 bytes, while having encoding="utf-8" in the file, for example. You must also avoid mixing encodings in the same file (some characters using one encoding, some using another). - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | resume: http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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