Re: output encoding="iso-8859-1"

Daniel,

To sort out this minefield you need to take a good look at Mike Brown's
explanation of encoding issues at

http://skew.org/xml/tutorial/

then maybe check out how that theory matches dreadful browser realities
via Alan Wood's

http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/

Also, your mention of "copying and pasting from a Unicode font in
Microsoft Word" suggests you may need to find out more about another
chamber of horrors: the way that Win9X/ME on the one hand and NT4/W2K
internally represent unicode characters and handle their transfer via
the clipboard and COM in very different ways, even when running
identical applications with identical fonts. Sorry, but I don't know a
handy single site for that info (tho' its splattered all over various
bits of the MSDN site and CD's)

Michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Florian" <DFlorian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:46 PM
Subject: RE:  output encoding="iso-8859-1"


> Thanks Paul,
>
> But I'm not sure I hear what you're saying - if I generated the
characters
> by copying and pasting from a Unicode font in Microsoft Word where did
this
> go wrong?
>
> Is the only proper way to refer to characters in utf-8 as the
character
> references?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clapham, Paul [mailto:pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 4:43 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  output encoding="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> You declared the encoding of your input XML to be utf-8, but it
actually
> isn't -- at least, not if you planned to put the two characters "á"
and "°"
> in it.  Try declaring it as ISO-8859-1.
>
> PC2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Florian [mailto:DFlorian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: June 1, 2001 21:35
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  output encoding="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Another encoding question.  My apologies, but the other threads didn't
help
> me.  I am transforming this xml: ( The special characters are an a
with an
> accent and then the degree sign )
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Untitled2.xsl"?>
> <start>
> á °
> </start>
>
> with this xsl:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
> <xsl:template match="start">
>         <xsl:value-of select=".">
>         </xsl:value-of>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> and I get:
> &#6192;
>
> What character reference is the &#6192?  This is supposed to be
ISO-8859-1
> isn't it?  Then how come I can't seem to find the character code for
6192
> decimal?  And also, what happened to the 2 distinct characters from
the
> source xml?
>
> Any help is much appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Dan
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