Re: [xsl] escaping an accented character

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

Peter Hollingsworth wrote:

> The character à ('a' with a grave accent) appears in a node in my XML. 
> When I use an XSLT to display the node in an href for link in an html 
> page, the character gets escaped as %C3%A0, which is completely wrong 
> (it should be escaped as %E0). Similar problems occur with all accented 
> characters.

It's exactly the right thing. See:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.1>

> Both the XSL and the XML file have encoding="UTF-8" (unicode, I believe).

That's irrelevant here.

> Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Fix the server, if you can. The URI is just fine.

Julian

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