Re: encoding

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Amiceto Lopez wrote:

> Hola everybody:
> I'm working on a website that should be portable to any country any
> languaje so which is the encoding to use? a generic one (maybe UTF-16)
> or should it be defined in any case?
> 
> gracias
> 
Not a direct answer to your question, but I've found:
http://www.opentag.com/xmli18nfaq.htm
very useful for this kind of problem... 
with a similar problem (but smaller range of charsets ;-) I'm now
ocnverting all incoming documents to UTF8 using a stylesheet like:
http://www.opentag.com/xmli18nfaq.htm#enc_conv

buena suerte,
graham


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