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Re: AW: [xsl] Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl > UTF-8 ?

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Hi,

AceHTML has among other encodings also UTF-8. At least the commercial one
version 5. Version 4 is for free. You can try that.

Cheers,
Agnes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Braumüller, Hans" <h.braumueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: AW: AW: [xsl] Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl > UTF-8 ?


> Hi,
>
> great, now i understand. So i must get an enabled UTF-8 text-editor, i am
> using homesite and sometimes ultraedit. It seems that they have no UTF-8
> support.
>
> Do you know one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hans Braumüller
>
>
> > Any time you save a text file or transmit it over a network,
> > you have a series
> > of bytes representing the characters in the document. The
> > encoding is how
> > those bytes map to characters.
> >
> > UTF-8 maps all 1.1 million Unicode characters to a series of
> > 1 to 4 bytes per
> > character. You certainly do have those German characters
> > available in utf-8,
> > but instead of being mapped to 1 byte each, as they would be
> > in iso-8859-1,
> > they are mapped to 2 bytes each.
> >
> > A text editor that doesn't tell you what encoding it is using
> > when you save
> > the document is probably relying on the underlying OS to make
> > encoding/decoding decisions, and it probably isn't using
> > Unicode internally at
> > all; rather it just manages buffers of bytes fed to it by the
> > OS. Solution:
> > get a smarter text editor that lets you choose the encoding
> > to save files
> > with.
> >
> > The encoding declaration in an XML document is a reflection
> > of the actual
> > encoding used *throughout* file. You must not save a file with all the
> > characters encoded as iso-8859-1 bytes, while having
> > encoding="utf-8" in the
> > file, for example. You must also avoid mixing encodings in
> > the same file (some
> > characters using one encoding, some using another).
> >
> >    - Mike
> > ______________________________________________________________
> > ______________
> >   mike j. brown                   |  xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/
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> > http://skew.org/~mike/resume/
> >
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