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Here are a couple of tutorials that may help to understand the general issues involved: http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/dw/unicode-onlinecourse- bynewest?OpenDocument&Count=500 http://www.malibutelecom.com/yucca/chars.html As David Carlisle mentions in his post, sticking with UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a good idea. > -----Original Message----- > From: Hewko, Doug [mailto:Doug.Hewko@c...] > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:20 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Language declaration question > > > Out of curiousity, when you specify an encoding value in a > XML document, > where does the XML processor obtain the encoding values from? > Would the > processor return an error, automatically download the > encoding value, or > does it come already with every known encoding value? (I have > difficulty > believing the latter.) > > For example: > > 1) I am programming XML for your MS IE 5.5 browser (assume it > supports the > ISO-8859-6 values). I happen to specify the an Arabic language coding, > ISO-8859-6. What would someone get if they have the basic > American version > of Windows? > > 2) This time I am programming server-side, in Cocoon (or > Saxon, whatever). > Same type of question. The server supports the languages > (don't know how but > let's say it does). What would a user get when accessing a > XML document in a > different language? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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