> why is utf-16 essential (as opposed to say utf-8, or even ascii + entity
references) 

Special European Characters don't seem to work for UTF-8 (at least for the
MSXML parser).
I had a look at the W3C doc and tried the UTF-16 as they said it should be
supported, but the at the start of parsing it said the encoding is not
supported.

I have read a bit now on the UTF-8 and UTF-16 explanations as my knowledge
of them isn't great. 
Does anybody have a few sentences to explain these ? - I am going to look at
some stuff at unicode.org as well.

Wouldn't explain why the parser couldn't understand the special chracters
though?

Thanks,
Steven

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Carlisle [SMTP:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	08 September 1999 12:37
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: MSXML and Encoding
> 
> > Anybody know if the XSL parser with MSXML supports UTF-16 encoding?
> 
> I am sure somebody does:-) It should do (it is mandated by the XML REC)
> 
> but
> 
> > My document contains many European names, so UTF-16 is pretty essential.
> 
> why is utf-16 essential (as opposed to say utf-8, or even ascii + entity
> references) 
> 
> David
> 
> 
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