Subject: Re: RE: Another question on ÄäÖöÜü From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:44:33 +0100 (BST) |
> If I need another encoding for German characters, does that not indicate > an anomaly in the requirement? No, as you don't _need_ to use latin 1 for the German characters. In many ways you are better using utf-8, even if that is less familiar to you. If your document is encoded in latin1 then there may be some XML applications that can not process it, on the other hand _every_ XML application can handle the characters in utf-8 encoding. That is a requirement in the xml spec: If an application can not handle utf-8 and utf-16, it isn't an XML application. Applications _may_ support other encodings such as iso-8859-1 but they may also just reject the entire document. If your XML browser/editor is showing you the german characters as pairs of random characters, then it is probably just not set up right. (Where `right' has to be interpreted to mean set up as intended by the XML spec: some older applications may not be able to be set up `right') Having said that it is convenient to use latin1 (iso-8859-1) if your current environment is set up to use that, but switching from xt to saxon doesn't cost anything. David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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