Re: RE: Another question on ÄäÖöÜü

> 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


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