asim wrote:
>     when i give this encoding tag
>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> on the top of my xsl files

...you are making the assertion that the bytes of the file can be converted
to Unicode characters according to the iso-8859-1 character map.

> and then save them using visual studio.net save
> as encoding and i choose UTF-8(without signature)

...so it is a utf-8 file and you have mislabeled it as iso-8859-1. This is the
wrong thing to do. You are required by XML 1.0 to provide an accurate encoding
declaration. Change the declaration to encoding="utf-8" so that the XML parser
reading the file will be able to properly decode the file's bytes.

This is true for any XML, not just XSL.

Mike

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