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Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl
From: Paul Terray <terray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:16:48 +0200
At 09:44 13/06/2002 +0100, you wrote: 
But since one of the main aims of XML is to produce portable documents
why tie yourself to a proprietary encoding? Many XML parsers will not be
able to deal with that encoding, If you use iso-8859-1 (latin 1) your
document will be a lot more portable. If you used utf-8 (the default)
then your document would work with all XML parsers.

Tell that to my customer...

Actually, this system is quite old now (4 years), and encoding was not a so big issue at the time, in particular with databases. Does any database support UTF-8 searching now ?


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