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OK-Thanks again guys, even though I didn't explain what I wanted very
well, you've given me a couple answers and equally importantly, some
viable
solutions. (Not having a background in programming, html or anything
closely related puts me at a bit of a disadvantage sometimes. Thanks for
being patient.)




On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Mike Brown wrote:

> Greg Martel wrote:
> > which displays like this "⤢".
>
> This is a FAQ.
>
> Those are probably the correct 3 bytes for the character you wanted, in the
> utf-8 encoding. utf-8 uses 1 to 4 bytes to represent the 1.1 million
> characters in Unicode. If your editor or terminal or whatever viewing
> environment you're using to look at the source is showing you 3 characters for
> those 3 bytes, instead of the 1 character you wanted, then the problem is that
> your viewing environment is expecting a single-byte encoding, not utf-8.
>
> Fixing this is a matter of using a smarter editor, or if you're looking at it
> in a browser, making sure that your HTML contains (or is served with) the
> correct encoding declaration and that your browser is configured to honor this
> declaration. Typically, it should look like
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> in the document's <head>.
>
> Your other option, to get the output you were hoping for, is to use
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="us-ascii"/> to force your XSLT processor
> to write character references (since that character is not available in
> us-ascii).
>
> As Julian has been saying, how you write the character on the input side
> (source XML or stylesheet) is essentially an arbitrary lexical decision that
> is completely obscured once the document is parsed. You must understand that
> XSLT is not an exercise in serially pasting together strings that are copied
> from raw XML files.
>
>    - Mike
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