RE: Recognized Unicode characters?

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Subject: RE: Recognized Unicode characters?
From: "Edward Bryant" <bryant_edward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 08:08:47 -0500

Thanks for responding, but I think you guys lost me.
Here is the xslt header info I used:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html"/>

I set output to HTML because that is the output I am creating. (isn't this right?)

As for the encoding, I have to admit I am confused. I picked UTF-8 mostly due to general recommendations for its use in learning-xml books and websites (and that it is the default), but none I have seen explain why with any detail or why anyone might use something different. The special characters in my source xml file are all character references to the Unicode numbers (&#___;, etc.)

As I understand it, shouldn't the XSLT processor know from the "encoding" attribute that the references will be to Unicode numbers and read them correctly as those characters. I also understand that the processor has some flexibility in how it outputs the text, but that it will often output special characters as entity references (e.g., the "&" symbol as "&").

So, I am still confused why a Unicode reference to #8212 won't output correctly? The ouput displays a square box in both the browser (IE6) as well as in the HTML source itself (viewed via Windows notepad).

> > > Shouldn't that be <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII"... for safety?
> >
> > Neither is completely safe of course,
>
The spec only requires support for UTF-8 and UTF-16, anything else is
optional.
I personally use "iso-646" as the name of this encoding. The differences are immaterial (different names for some of the characters, I believe) but I prefer international standards as a matter of principle.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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Re: Recognized Unicode characters?, (continued)
- Andrew Welch - 6 May 2005 09:42:16 -0000
- Colin Paul Adams - 6 May 2005 10:57:33 -0000
- Edward Bryant - 9 May 2005 13:09:12 -0000 <=
  - Geert Josten - 9 May 2005 13:49:14 -0000
  - David Carlisle - 9 May 2005 13:52:38 -0000
    - Edward Bryant - 9 May 2005 14:27:43 -0000
    - David Carlisle - 9 May 2005 14:33:28 -0000

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