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Re: bulgarian/cyrilic
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- Subject: Re: bulgarian/cyrilic
- From: "Nikolai Grigoriev" <grig at iitp dot ru>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:36:43 +0300
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> Does anyone know the encoding I need to use Bulgarian or Cyrilic
>characters in my xml/xsl? I tried encoding="UTF-8" but it spit the dummy.
It depends mostly on whether the appropriate fonts are installed on
your machine. IE4-5 under Win95/NT works fine with UTF-8
if you have the appropriate charset (204) in your fonts; normally,
Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New contain the charset 204,
and all other do not. In the same environment, you may also try
windows-1251 as the charset name.
If you are under Unix, try either koi8-r (sometimes spelled as koi8r,
without dash) or iso-8859-5; chances are that you have at least
one of the two.
Another problem is whether your XSLT processor is able to handle
any of these. I admire XT but it still lacks support for anything but
UTF-8 in the output; SAXON is much more foreigner-friendly ;-).
Please note that UTF-8/Unicode, windows-1251, koi8-r and iso-8859-5
are all mutually incompatible. If you were about to publish Cyrillic
texts in Russian over the Internet, I would recommend using koi8-r.
Bulgarian uses the same repertory of glyphs, but I don't know which
is the preferred charset; they could also have a fifth version ;-).
Regards,
Nikolai
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