Re: [xsl] encoding and XSL Transformation

[Tony Graham <Tony dot Graham at Sun dot COM>]

Chuck White wrote at 10 Sep 2002 07:19:37 -0700:
 > Windows encodings within the range of 128-159 map out to a variety of
 > control characters in Unicode, so your problem begins with your source
 > document, not Xalan.

Don't automatically equate byte values with character numbers (i.e.,
code points).

Bytes in the range 128-159 when read as, say, ISO-8859-1 maps to a
variety of control characters.

Data in ISO-8859-1 when read as UTF-8 maps to a lot of junk, usually
with a lot of illegal byte sequences.  UTF-8 data read as UTF-16
undoubtedly reads as a lot of junk too.

Data in a Windows code page when read as a Windows code page (in an
XML context, when the encoding declaration specifies the right
encoding) reads as a variety of characters that have Unicode code
points that do not have a 1:1 correspondence with the numeric value of
the bytes used to represent the characters.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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