RE: [xsl] encoding of text files

["Yates, Danny (ANTS)" <danny.yates@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joerg,

If you are outputting UTF-8 then your a-umlaut will be written as
a two-byte sequence. If your output is serialised XML or HTML then
this is fine, as there are headers which can declare that the
content is UTF-8 encoded. If, however, you are writing a plain text
file (as you say you are), there is no way for the process which
reads it in to determine whether it is UTF-8, ASCII, iso-8859-1 or
whatever.

The first string you give would appear to indicate that there are,
as expected, two bytes in the output stream where you expect your
a-umlaut character to appear, and the program you are using to
view this file doesn't understand this.

When you ask XSLT to output using iso-8859-1, it know that in this
encoding there is a single byte representation of a-umlaut, and it
uses this and it is correctly intpretted by your viewing program.

So, if you must write out UTF-8 (and it's quite possible that you
may be able to survive with iso-8859-1 if you're just using a few
simple accented characters, such as French and German), then you
need to tell your viewing program that the byte stream you are
feeding it is a UTF-8 encoded character stream.

Regards,

Dan.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx]
Sent: 14 November 2002 10:03
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] encoding of text files


Hello,

I have a problem with generated java/text files and their encoding.

 From a autotest description a java file is generated. If i use default 
output encoding (UTF-8), the German umlauts in the output looks like this
one:
            "geändert"

If I use ISO-8859-1 it's correct:
            "geändert"

I use Netbeans, which knows in general UTF-8 (with XML), but I don't know whether it knows UTF-8 in text files. At least the output of the java file is also wrong.

It should be possible to have text files in UTF-8, shouldn't it?? What can then be the problem? How are text files marked as UTF-8?

With pure XML encoding seems simple, but what about text files. Can somebody

  enlighten me or point to some resources?

Joerg

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