Re: [xsl] Recognized Unicode characters?

[Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Maybe your default font of your browser doesn't support the character you are trying to see. I 
cannot reproduce the problem. Using output method HTML, the XSL processor (Xalan) converts the 8212 
to — when writing us-ascii and some utf-8 byte sequence when writing utf-8. I see either 
garbage (when it is utf-8 and there is no meta tag specifying the encoding) or just the character 
you are looking for. I saw the square box in none of the cases I tested...

Cheers,
Geert

> Thanks for responding, but I think you guys lost me.
> Here is the xslt header info I used:
>
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>  <xsl:output method="html"/>
>
> I set output to HTML because that is the output I am creating. (isn't 
> this right?)
>
> As for the encoding, I have to admit I am confused. I picked UTF-8 
> mostly due to general recommendations for its use in learning-xml books 
> and websites (and that it is the default), but none I have seen explain 
> why with any detail or why anyone might use something different. The 
> special characters in my source xml file are all character references to 
> the Unicode numbers (&#___;, etc.)
>
> As I understand it, shouldn't the XSLT processor know from the 
> "encoding" attribute that the references will be to Unicode numbers and 
> read them correctly as those characters. I also understand that the 
> processor has some flexibility in how it outputs the text, but that it 
> will often output special characters as entity references (e.g., the "&" 
> symbol as "&amp;").
>
> So, I am still confused why a Unicode reference to #8212 won't output 
> correctly? The ouput displays a square box in both the browser (IE6) as 
> well as in the HTML source itself (viewed via Windows notepad).
>
> > > > > Shouldn't that be <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII"... for safety?
> > > >
> > > > Neither is completely safe of course,
> > >
> >
> > The spec only requires support for UTF-8 and UTF-16, anything else is
> > optional.
> >
> > I personally use "iso-646" as the name of this encoding. The 
> > differences are
> > immaterial (different names for some of the characters, I believe) but I
> > prefer international standards as a matter of principle.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/

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