• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:23:30 -0500

On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 23:00 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

> 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
> 
> In the windows-1252 encoding scheme the Euro sign (€) is hex 80. 

> 	&#x80;43.00

No. Do not do this.

[...]
>     Numeric character references (such as &#x80;) 
>     are interpreted as Unicode characters – no matter 
>     what encoding you use for your document.

Right. That is because the numeric character references identify
codepoints, not input octet sequences.

Liam


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• References:
  • Quiz: How do you put a Euro sign in your data if your XML useswindows-1252 encoding and you use a numeric character reference?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>