Re: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact

>>>>> "David" == David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> This is impossible to achieve - mdash is not supported by ISO
    >> 8859-1.  Output as UTF-8 - most web browsers support that now.

    David> No. In XML numeric character references (and entity
    David> references defined in terms of these) may denote _any_
    David> unicode character, by unicode number, irrespective of the
    David> encoding used for characters in the document.  So even if
    David> you have a latin1 (or us-ascii) encoded file you can still
    David> refer to &mdash; as being the appropriate character.

You may refer to it, but it doesn't do you any good, as it is not
possible to display the character in an iso-8859-1 font. And I haven't
seen a browser clever enough (actually, I've never seen a browser that
was even half-clever) to say - ah! mdash - let me see - a hyphen
should do the trick - I'll display that.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

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RE: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact, (continued) McCollum , Angus - Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:08:11 -0400 Thomas B. Passin - Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:20:14 -0400 Colin Paul Adams - 11 Oct 2001 07:45:45 +0100 David Carlisle - Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:33:24 +0100 Colin Paul Adams - 12 Oct 2001 08:19:15 +0100 <= David Carlisle - Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:34:20 +0100 Mike Brown - Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:38:19 -0600 (MDT) David Carlisle - Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:29:00 +0100 McCollum , Angus - Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:01:36 -0400

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RE: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact, (continued)
- McCollum , Angus - Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:08:11 -0400
  - Thomas B. Passin - Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:20:14 -0400
  - Colin Paul Adams - 11 Oct 2001 07:45:45 +0100
    - David Carlisle - Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:33:24 +0100
    - Colin Paul Adams - 12 Oct 2001 08:19:15 +0100 <=
    - David Carlisle - Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:34:20 +0100
    - Mike Brown - Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:38:19 -0600 (MDT)
  - David Carlisle - Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:29:00 +0100
- McCollum , Angus - Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:01:36 -0400

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