Re: cursed RTF outputs

Sorry, I confused Windows-1250 and Windows-1252. Windows-1252 does work for
my character set (French). Notwithstanding that, the output results when
opened in rtf do not show up correctly.


On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Am 1/28/2023 um 5:23 PM schrieb Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx:
>
> It seems I am stuck in 2004 problems.
>
> I am trying to get an RTF-compliant output from XSLT (3.0) but as usual,
> like back in the old mailing lists, characters aren't coming through. Has
> this been solved with a particular encoding yet?
>
> My test situation is with this node:
>
> <node>C) C( C  B( B0 C.</node>
>
> And this stylesheet using output encoding Windows-1250:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="3.0">
>
>   <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
>   <xsl:output method="text" encoding="Windows-1250"/>
>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     {\rtf1
> \par <xsl:apply-templates/>
>      }
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I get an rtf document with these characters
>
> C ? ? B$ B. C4
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Jean-Paul
>
> PS: incidentally https://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/6qLYEp2 even
> says it won't output because the characters are unsupported. So this just
> adds to my confusion about how to make any of this work.
>
>
> Well, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250 the character
> C( is not part of the characters encodable by 1250.
>
> I don't know about RTF, is there no way these days to use an Unicode
> encoding like UTF-8?
>
> The provided sample also works for me using Windows-1252 but I can't tell
> which languages you want to cover.
>
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