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You're right, I could have been more precise, so let me try again.
When you use UTF-8 as the encoding attribute in the xs:output element of
an xsl(t), international characters are not formatted correctly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Baker [mailto:listsub -at- analecta -dot- com]
Sent: December 23, 2003 4:01 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Multilingual Documentation
France Baril wrote:
> UTF-8 used by most anglophones do not output international characters
properly.
What difficulties are you having with UTF-8? UTF-8 is simply a standard
for encoding character numbers. By itself if does not output anything,
it merely governs the way in which characters are encoded. If you have a
problem with UTF-8 encoded files it is probably with the program reading
the file and not with UTF-8 encoding per se.
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