Re: [xsl] encoding of text files

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

In conclusion I must either change the output encoding of the sender to 
the receiver's expected one or change the expectation of the receiver.
This seems to be really error prone - how did the world work without 
XML? ;-)

Thanks for all answers.

Joerg

Mike Brown wrote:
> > How are text files marked as UTF-8?
>
> Ordinary text files have no way of indicating their encoding. XML document
> entities and parsed general entities have encoding declarations for this
> purpose, and XML parsers also accept external declarations of encoding, such
> as what might be obtained from a transport protocol (HTTP response
> Content-Type header, for example) by whatever is feeding the entity's bytes to
> the parser.
>
> The sender and receiver of the bytes that constitute a file intended for
> processing as textual data must be in agreement on what encoding was used to
> produce those bytes. How you do that in your non-XSLT related application is a
> matter you should take up in a more apporpriate forum.
>
>    - Mike


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