Transform from UTF-8 symbol to character entity

Dear Team,

I have needed solution form you, I have transforming the UTF-8 character to
character entity.

I just want know the what the value need to be given the encoding attribute
value. <hov:output method="xml" encoding=""/>.

I hope your help

Thanks,
Selva


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