RE: CharSet conversions

[Jeremy Quinn <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/12/99 at 1:58 pm, Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Mike,

Thanks for the reply, sorry it took me so long to acknowledge.

>> Marking up my XML to say <?xml version="1.0" 
>> encoding="MacRoman"?> results in a message (from Saxon) 
>> saying this encoding is not supported. 
>
>This message comes from the XML parser, not from Saxon. It might be that
>there is an XML parser around that does support this encoding, in which case
>you can use it with Saxon; but I'm afraid I don't know. 

OK. I am using Saxon straight out of the jar, so to speak.
I wrote a class that extends StyleSheet, that I can use as a file droplet to render folders full of files. (and it works very nicely thank you ;-)

I just copied saxon.jar and ParserManager.properties to my MRJClasses folder (this makes the files available in everything's classpath).

I must be using the default Parser that is set up in the properties file, no? 
My default appears to be XP, version 0.5.
 
>>Converting to Latin-1 would be relatively easy.
>
>In that case do that, and specify encoding="iso-8859-1"; or convert all
>non-ASCII characters to character references, which should be equally easy.

I feel converting to character entities is like, pre-purposing the data for the web, correct me if I'm wrong ...

If I use iso-8859-1, would it be converted to utf-8 by default? 
If so, I might as well just store it in utf-8.


thanks Jeremy

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