Re: Representing EBCDIC code 37 in xslt

Well, I have <xsl:output encoding> set to utf-8 right now. If I set it
to EBCDIC, then the rest of the content in the XML converts to
gibberish. Thats what I meant.

I only need the special characters -esp. Latin-1 characters like the
plusminus sign, to convert to the right EBCDIC code.

I have a java program that FTPs the file; I believe the default is ASCII.



On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 30 Dec 2013, at 18:52, a kusa <akusa8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi Michael:
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>> Thanks for your quick response. I did mention that I tried utf-8 and
>> iso-8859-1 encoding. I cannot set the whole encoding to EBCDIC since
>> that will change all the other text to gibberish.
>>
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> That doesn't make sense. It makes no sense to have some characters in a file encoded in EBCDIC unless the whole file is encoded in EBCDIC.
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> Are you using "gibberish" as a synonym for "EBCDIC"? If so, I don't really understand what you are trying to achieve.
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> Saxon, incidentally, allows you to use any encoding supported by your Java environment. Information on the encodings supported by Oracle JDK 7 can be found here:
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> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica