I will not explain you why it can't support european character (because I don't
know) but if you want to use them, just type : encoding="ISO-8859-1" . normally,
it works

"Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM" wrote:

> > 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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