[xsl] Perl workaround for XSLT escaped UTF-8 pass-thru to XHTML

[Gan Uesli Starling <alias@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> I have an XML here...
>
> http://starling.ws/XML/howto.xml
>
> ...which uses this XSLT...
>
> http://starling.ws/XML/howto.xsl
>
> ...and looks fine when viewed in either
> Mozilla 1.2.1 or MSIE 6 SP 1 as *.xml.
>
> But when I use that same XSLT to output
> to *.html as a file, then go to view it
> as *.html with those same browsers then
> the UTF-8 (since it is not escaped with
> ampersand-pound) does not display...

Nobody answered my plea about passing escaped
UTF-8 thru from XML to HTML. So I cobbled my
own ex-post-facto Perl solution. Not elegant,
but at least it works. See results at...

http://starling.ws/XML/howto.html

...which should work for most browsers and not
just Mozilla 1.2.1 and MSIE 6 SP 1.

Here is the Perl script. What it does is
reads in all *.html files and translates
a list of UTF-8 chars to their escaped-for-
HTML identical twins. The list of chars is
for Esperanto and some arrow glyphs. Feel
free to add more.

http://starling.ws/XML/re-escape_UTF-8.pl

Enjoy,

Gan

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