RE: Using accented characters in XML

The output was "Éditez un admin"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Black [mailto:enigma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:27 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Using accented characters in XML
> 
> 
> > To answer the original question, it is an encoding issue 
> that will be solved
> > if he makes sure that his XML document properly declares its actual
> > encoding. I think he's leaving off the encoding declaration 
> and it is
> > defaulting to UTF-8, when in fact the file is iso-8859-1 
> encoded. As the
> > bytes for Éditez are read in, this is what happens:
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that were he to include that 
> encoding declaration,
> along with the accented É - the xslt processor would not have 
> a problem, but
> the _output_ would still contain the original character, 
> _not_ its encoded
> counterpart?
> 
> i.e. if he were going to html, it would look like this:
> <b>Éditez</b> (which isn't correct)
> 
> not
> 
> <b>&#201;ditez</b>
> or
> <b>&Eacute;ditez</b>
> 
> The last two being synonymous assuming you're using an html dtd, and
> correct.
> 
> ?
> 
> _alex
> 
> 
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