Re: escaping an accented character

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Subject: Re: escaping an accented character
From: Peter Hollingsworth <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:05:22 -0800

OK, sorry to be so dense, but your reference says the following:

We recommend that user agents adopt the following convention for handling non-ASCII characters in such cases: 1. Represent each character in UTF-8 (see [RFC2279]) as one or more bytes. 2. Escape these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the byte value).

So following the instructions, I take the character for à, which according to everything I can find is 224. I convert this to hex, E0. Voila, the escaped value is %E0. Where do you get %C3%A0 out of this? Obviously the xsl parser agrees with you, but I don't see where the value is coming from.

Thanks.

--Peter

At 10:09 PM 1/13/2004 +0100, you wrote:

Peter Hollingsworth wrote:

The character à ('a' with a grave accent) appears in a node in my XML. When I use an XSLT to display the node in an href for link in an html page, the character gets escaped as %C3%A0, which is completely wrong (it should be escaped as %E0). Similar problems occur with all accented characters.
It's exactly the right thing. See:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.1>

Both the XSL and the XML file have encoding="UTF-8" (unicode, I believe).
That's irrelevant here.

Any suggestions? Thanks.
Fix the server, if you can. The URI is just fine.

Julian
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escaping an accented character Peter Hollingsworth - Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:52:27 -0500 (EST) Julian Reschke - Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:09:59 -0500 (EST) Peter Hollingsworth - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:05:25 -0500 (EST) <= Kaarle Kaila - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:14:34 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:29:19 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:28:06 -0500 (EST)

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