RE: encoding shift_jis into an attribute

Hi Wendell,

I'm really only worried about one processing architecture, but I'm
curious, what about the code I wrote isn't portable?  I can see that
building up tags as text is messy and error-prone, but I can't find any
other way to achieve the same effect.

You asked about setting the output encoding to "ascii".  This doesn't
seem to make any difference.

Thanks for your interest.

Sincerely,
Matthew Simoneau
The MathWorks, Inc.