RE: Japanese characters show up as ? in browser

Andrew,

Thanks for the response, but it doesn't appear to be a problem with the
browser.  I have the following snippet in the XSL which renders properly
in both browsers:

         <td class="body" align="right" width="85" valign="center">
                  &#x65E5;&#x672C;&#x8A9E;:
         </td>

When the UTF-8 characters are embedded in the XSL, they seem to work
fine.  It appears to be only when I transfer them from the XML using the
xsl:value-of element, that they are not coming across properly.  Is
there anything else I could be missing?

Thanks again.

Regards,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: andrew welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:03 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Japanese characters show up as ? in browser

On 7/20/06, David Nesbitt <dnesbitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am using Xalan to transform XML into HTML.  The Japanese characters,
> however, are shown as question marks in the browser.
>
> Here is a snippet of XML:
>
>         <Id>&#x65E5;&#x672C;&#x8A9E;</Id>
>         <Description>&#x82B1;&#x5B50;</Description>
>
> Here is the corresponding snippet of XSL that transforms this XML:
>
>         <option>
>                 <xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of
> select="Id"/></xsl:attribute>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="Description"/>
>         </option>
>
> Here is the HTML source I am getting from the browser:
>
>         <option value="???">??</option>
>
> I am using encoding="UTF-8" in the xsl:output element.  Any ideas of
> what may be going wrong?  I have tried both FireFox and IE.

Ensure the browser is reading the file in the correct encoding and use
a font that contains those characters.

cheers
andrew