Subject: RE: [xsl] Unicode support From: "Clapham, Paul" <pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:17:44 -0700 |
And then there's the product which my company pays several thousand dollars a year for. (Of course all this is my opinion and not my company's opinion, as per the usual legal BS.) It's a well-known AS/400 SQL product, and the most recent version will produce an XML file from an SQL select statement. The header of this file says its encoding is utf-8, but it actually isn't. It's just some extended ASCII encoding, probably CP437, so as soon as the data included a cent sign (first day in production!), the XML parser (rightly) rejected it. When their help line couldn't say anything helpful, I pointed out that this error was a FAQ on this list and that I was surprised to see commercial software making such an elementary blunder. Last I heard, the problem had been sent to the programmers. I just found out that if the selection produces zero records, then their software outputs a zero-length file... which is also not valid XML, is it? PC2 -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Rahtz [mailto:sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: July 8, 2001 16:44 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Unicode support Paul Prescod writes: > I think that people hacking on > what they like, for fun, should have whatever attitude they like! But I > don't expect you to agree. So do I, you'll be glad to know. But I also think Michael can reasonably whinge their attitude! I feel sensitive about this, because I have done my small part in sending out various half-chewed software to the world, and being badly bitten by people who actually use it, and are upset when it doesn't work (any Jadetex users out there? :-}). Even for free, it pays to be responsible... Sebastian XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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