Subject: Re: [xsl] encoding issues From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:23:51 +0100 |
> When I view the output in IE, I see the modified A (whats it really > called?). Oh so that's a sign that the output is in utf-8. Try manually selecting utf8 in teh browser and see what happens. As to why auto-select isn't detecting that, I don't know. > btw, if I can pick your brains sort-of off topic, in which situation > would you choose to use utf-8 over utf-16? I'd always choose utf-8 over utf-16 because I'm an English speaking luddite. utf-8 is designed to make things simple for users whose character set is predominantly ascii based, and whose tools are designed to work with 8 bit encodings. utf-16 is designed to make things simple for tools that are basically aimed at 16bit encodings. (So java is happiest internally with utf16 but as a user I'd rather see the output in utf8 so mostly it makes sense if I look at it in a latin1 (or ascii) based terminal. Internal Microsoft strings are (I understand) same as java ones essentially 16bit so if you ask msxsl to output to a string rather than to a file then it necessarily ignores whatever output encoding you ask for and uses utf16 (It is explictly allowed to do this according to the xslt spec). So if I ever think I'll need to look out the output markup I'd try to get it in utf-8 or iso-8859-1 but if it is just an internal transformation going to some other process in the pipeline, let the processor pick whatever is most convenient for its use (which is likely to be utf-16) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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