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Does somebody know where to find which Unicode characters Explorer and Netscape support? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 5:37 PM Subject: Re: character encoding with MSXML3 > [MacEwan, James ] > > > > > > > I thought that the ALT-130 character was something a non-Microsoft browser > > running on a non- > > Windows operating system might have trouble with and that putting out > > é was a better bet for a public web site with users running > > who-know-what. (i.e. that practically every HTML compliant browser would > > render the é character correctly.) > > > > Perhaps a more fundamental question that I need answered is is the > é > > output better than the ALT-130 character (or are the two equivalent for > any > > browser)? > > > > ALT-130 depends on the operating system, language, and perhaps the keyboard. > How it displays in a Microsoft system depends on the "code page" in use. > When you press ALT-130, some particular character value is put into the > file. > > An xml processor will understand that code using its encoding, whether > declared or default. It won't be using you code page unless you are using a > processor that understands code page 1252, or whatever. Even if you are - > which would be rare - the processor will translate that character into > UTF-8, UTF-16 (as in the DOM) or whatever the processor uses internally. > > A defined character reference uniquely specifies some well-defined > character. How it will display, will still depend on whether the display > system or browser knows how to display the thing correctly, as well as > whether the browser understands the encoding in use. > > Cheers, > > Tom P > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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