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At 04:19 31-08-2001, Hewko, Doug wrote: >Out of curiousity, when you specify an encoding value in a XML document, >where does the XML processor obtain the encoding values from? Would the >processor return an error, automatically download the encoding value, or >does it come already with every known encoding value? (I have difficulty >believing the latter.) > >For example: > >1) I am programming XML for your MS IE 5.5 browser (assume it supports the >ISO-8859-6 values). I happen to specify the an Arabic language coding, >ISO-8859-6. What would someone get if they have the basic American version >of Windows? You're conflating two issues: encoding and language. To support ISO-8859-6, MSXML needs to know how the encoded characters in 8859-6 map into Unicode. This is easily done with a mapping table. *Displaying* Arabic characters is something different, and requires that the necessary fonts and support be installed. The parser has it pretty easy here. >2) This time I am programming server-side, in Cocoon (or Saxon, whatever). >Same type of question. The server supports the languages (don't know how but >let's say it does). What would a user get when accessing a XML document in a >different language? Do you mean languages, or encodings? The server almost certainly doesn't actually deal with languages. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://www.hmmci.com/ > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA
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