Re: Ignoring a certain string of characters

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> Is there a way in XSL to tell the processor to ignore a string of
> characters and pass it to the output verbatim?  
That is the default behaviour.

>  However, in addition to the correct em-dash,
> the output has an A-hat(A with ^ above it) preceeding the em-dash.  I

You have asked that your output is in utf-8 encoding (or accepted the
default encoding which is utf8. An emdash is a two byte character in
utf-8. If you incorrectly view the utf8 stream using a latin1 editor
you will see the pairs of bytes as essentially random characters.

This is probably the most F of the FAQs, see the archives 9or FAQ) for
this list to see more details.

David


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