Re: [xsl] escaping an accented character

["Kaarle Kaila" <kaarle.kaila@xxxxxx>]

On page http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
is an explanation on how UTF-8 characters are built.

>From that you see that 0xE0 becomes 0xC3A0

regards
Kaarle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hollingsworth" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] escaping an accented character


> OK, sorry to be so dense, but your reference says the following:
>
>    We recommend that user agents adopt the following convention
>    for handling non-ASCII characters in such cases:
>    1. Represent each character in UTF-8 (see [RFC2279]) as one or more
bytes.
>    2. Escape these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by
converting
>       each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the byte
> value).
>
> So following the instructions, I take the character for à, which according
> to everything I can find is 224. I convert this to hex, E0. Voila, the
> escaped value is %E0.  Where do you get %C3%A0 out of this? Obviously the
> xsl parser agrees with you, but I don't see where the value is coming
from.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Peter
>
>
> At 10:09 PM 1/13/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >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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