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RE: UNICODE problem
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:21:10 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] UNICODE problem
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> > Of course this will limit you to the XML-supported subset
> of the 256
> > characters allowed by iso-8859-1, whereas utf-8 gives you the
> > XML-supported subset of some 1.1 million characters.
>
> Add to that: ..but that's OK, because your XSLT processor
> should be smart enough, when outputting html or xml, to write
> any characters that are beyond the iso-8859-1 range as
> numeric character references or as character entity
> references.
It's only OK if the element and attribute names use iso-8859-1
characters exclusively.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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