Re: XSL > XSL trans. and Characher Encoding

> please explain to me why I do not get a nbsp charachter when my XSL has 
> &#160 ?

you do get the non breaking space character. But characters are logical
entities, and files are just streams of bytes, it is th efile encoding
that matches the two. In a latin-1 encoded file nbsp is a single byte
with value 160. In a utf-8 encoded file that single character is encoded
as two bytes. If you look at the file in a system that understands the
file encoding you will see a (non breaking) space, if you look at the
file in a system set up for the wrong encoding of course the bytes in
the file are displayed as the wrong characters. The bytes that denote
nbsp happen to appear as an accented A and a space, but essentialy it is
just random junk caused by your system incorrectly decoding the byte
stream.  

David

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