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Hello Rick , thankx for answering , i checked my xsl file by opening it in
binary editor of visual studio.net , the one japanese char is takinf 3 bytes
ie å®¶

rick the problem is that if i see the xsl file directly in browser it shoes
me the japanese characters. and also if i send this characters in any xml
packet and then if i transform it using msxml parser 4.0 and display the
value of that packet even there the html is generated and i can see the
japanese characters fine.

PLz help :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 1:58 AM
Subject: Re:  getting undisered results , when trying to display
japanese characters


> From: "asim" <qazi@a...>
>
>
> > this my XSL file with japnese characters. if I transform it (my
transformation > funtions is wriiten bellow the file)  it shows me "?"
question marks , plz help, > i did saved this file as UTF-8 and using win2k
notepad.
>
> HTML is horrible to work with, for multilingual work.
>
> There are several places where problems can creep in:
>
> 1) The browser is using the wrong encoding.  Check whether
> your browser has been set to "auto-detect" the encoding, or
> whether it is fixed to some other encoding.   (In this case, the
> "?" means "unexpected code".)
>
> 2) Your system may have fonts installed which do not have
> the Japanese characters.  This is less likely nowdays, but
> still can happen.  (In this case, the "?" means "unavailable
> character")
>
> 3) You are reading the files over the web, and the webserver
> is not labelling the data correctly. You need to check your
> web-server's documentation for this, for example to set the
> .htaccess file correctly if you are using Apache. (In this case,
> the "?" means "unexpected code".)
>
> I hope these are some use.  A systematic approach is better than
> trial and error: in a HEX editor, look at the HTML file your XSLT
> script produces:-- if the Japanese characters each take three bytes
> where all the bytes are > 0x80, then your file is indeed UTF-8
> and you can concentrate on the HTTP and browser side of things.
> If the Japanese characters take two characters each, then it is not
> UTF-8 and you need to look at your XSLT code and implementation.
>
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
>
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