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Re: Ignoring a certain string of characters
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- Subject: Re: Ignoring a certain string of characters
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:49:05 +0100 (BST)
- References: <20000521172708.17545.qmail@web1105.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> 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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