RE: [xsl] encoding and XSL Transformation

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you ask for UTF-8 encoding you will get UTF-8 encoding, and of course
it will look like a garbled mess if you then display it using software
that can't display UTF-8. 

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Earl Bingham
> Sent: 10 September 2002 12:47
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] encoding and XSL Transformation
> 
> 
> 
> I'm having some trouble using the Xalan 2 Java parser for 
> parsing some XML 
> files I have that include non-ASCII characters. In which I 
> have characters 
> like right-tik ?  left-tik long dash, etc.  When I use Xalan UTF-8 
> encoding, it will make these characters into garbeled mess, 
> like  Â$(A  for right tick ,etc.
> When I use james clark's xt parser. It will transform these 
> characters 
> nicely. Converting them to their hex representation ’
> 
> The SAX2SAX.java example provided with Xalan doesn't do too much help 
> either. In which it seems like it will always output a 
> supposed 'UTF-8' 
> format even though I change the <xsl:output 
> encoding="ISO-8859-1'/> etc.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get the Xalan parser to properly 
> transform these 
> characters to their proper hex value?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Earl Bingham
> 
> 
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