Subject: Re: •
From: Greg Martel <gregm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:39:50 -0500 (CDT)
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OK-Thanks again guys, even though I didn't explain what I wanted very
well, you've given me a couple answers and equally importantly, some
viable
solutions. (Not having a background in programming, html or anything
closely related puts me at a bit of a disadvantage sometimes. Thanks for
being patient.)
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Mike Brown wrote:
> Greg Martel wrote:
> > which displays like this "⤢".
>
> This is a FAQ.
>
> Those are probably the correct 3 bytes for the character you wanted, in the
> utf-8 encoding. utf-8 uses 1 to 4 bytes to represent the 1.1 million
> characters in Unicode. If your editor or terminal or whatever viewing
> environment you're using to look at the source is showing you 3 characters for
> those 3 bytes, instead of the 1 character you wanted, then the problem is that
> your viewing environment is expecting a single-byte encoding, not utf-8.
>
> Fixing this is a matter of using a smarter editor, or if you're looking at it
> in a browser, making sure that your HTML contains (or is served with) the
> correct encoding declaration and that your browser is configured to honor this
> declaration. Typically, it should look like
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> in the document's <head>.
>
> Your other option, to get the output you were hoping for, is to use
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="us-ascii"/> to force your XSLT processor
> to write character references (since that character is not available in
> us-ascii).
>
> As Julian has been saying, how you write the character on the input side
> (source XML or stylesheet) is essentially an arbitrary lexical decision that
> is completely obscured once the document is parsed. You must understand that
> XSLT is not an exercise in serially pasting together strings that are copied
> from raw XML files.
>
> - Mike
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- Re: •, (continued)
- David Carlisle - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:54:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Thomas B. Passin - Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:19:13 -0400 (EDT)
- J.Pietschmann - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Mike Brown - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:53:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Greg Martel - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:50:00 -0400 (EDT) <=
- David Carlisle - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:11:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Michael Kay - Sun, 9 Jun 2002 11:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
- David Carlisle - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:47:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Allen Chu - Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
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