Re: encoding issues

> True, but   is a non-breaking-space in anyones markup.
Yes but that's what's in teh input, but it isn't like that in the output
it apears as character data:

#160 is two bytes in utf-8 so if you read those two bytes as latin-1 you
will see two characters, the first being an accented A.

An alternative to utf-8 if you don't want utf-16 is us-ascii
then #160 would be output as   and would, as you say,
be understood in any encoding.

But to get the html browser to detect the right encoding you need to add
a meta element to the head, the html output method does that
automatically but in XML you need to do it by hand (which is a bit risky
in general as you can not be sure that teh system will use the encoding
you ask for)

David

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