Subject: Re: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact From: Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 12 Oct 2001 08:19:15 +0100 |
>>>>> "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 — 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 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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