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RE: Character entities



Hi,

I had problems with characters sets, too. This URL helped me a lot :

http://freespace.virgin.net/b.pawson/xsl/xslcharacters.html

(main entrance is the famous DaveP FAQ : http://www.dpawson.co.uk/)

Regards
Frederic

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Beckers, Marc wrote:

> You're right. All of you.
> I ignorantly said "garbage" because that is what we saw
> when we further converted our DocBook instances to HTML
> and traced these characters to the first XSL/XT run.
> So I guess I have to take a closer look at our character
> set settings all the way down the production line.
> Does HTML "know" UTF-8?
> Thanks,
> Marc
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sebastian Rahtz
> > [mailto:sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 4:32 PM
> > To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> > Cc: adepters@arbortext.com
> > Subject: Re: Character entities
> > 
> > 
> > Beckers, Marc writes:
> >  > With the output method set to "xml", however, references 
> >  > to certain character entities result in garbage. Specifically:
> >  > ldquo, rdquo, ndash, mdash and sect. With output method 
> > set to "html",
> > ...
> > 
> > accept that they are *not* garbage, but are perfectly 
> > `normal' bits of 
> > UTF-8. No?
> > 
> > Sebastian
> > 
> > 
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> > 
> 
> 
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