[xsl] Again: XML to RTF - display of Unicode characters

[Els van Trigt <evtrigt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone must have gone down this road before...

My XSL stylesheet converts from XML to RTF. Works fine. However, if opened
in Word, it does not display the foreign (Arabic) symbols. Instead, I
literally read the
Unicode code (mapped to the XML by DTD).

Example of an Arabic character:
XML: &aeidasheiquot; DTD:"ẳ" (Unicode-hexadecimal) somehow mapped in
RTF to:
ẳ(decimal)


As suggested by David last week, I changed my xsl:output to the following,
but this does not work either:
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-16">
The thus generated file cannot be opened in Word; I get plain text. When I
use UTF-8 I get different characters - not the ones I need.
The XML I am converting from is a mixture of different character sets
(Latin, Arabic, Hebrew).

The Windows code page number is: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252

I need some code in my XSL to RTF that makes all of the different encodings
(Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) display properly when the RTF is opened in
Word. I am using the Arial Unicode MS font.

Who has the answer?

Els van Trigt

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