RE: 8bit ascii encoding

Thanks for all the responses, I still haven't been able to resolve the
problem but at least Ive learnt a *lot* about encoding.

One theoretical question that would help:  If I choose utf-8 as my
output encoding, there will be no BOM and characters in the original
ascii range will be output exactly as if I had chosen ascii...? (0-127) 

So in theory, any program that takes the output, copies it byte-for-byte
and adds some its own bytes in ascii, would maintain the original utf-8
encoding (therefore any program told to read it in utf-8 would be
successful).  Is this sound?


cheers
andrew
   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Leditschke [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 August 2002 07:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  8bit ascii encoding
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> > 
> > If my chars are two bytes each then Im using utf-16, but utf-8 can
> > consist of 1-5bytes per char... I think I need to read some more.
> 
> Hi Andrew. 
> May I suggest a very useful tutorial (thanks Mike!) at
> 
> http://skew.org/xml/tutorial/
> 
> which explains XML starting with a lot of information 
> about Unicode, encodings etc.
> 
> I found it very helpful when grappling with 
> encodings etc.
> 
> Regards
> Michael
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