Sounds as if you are generating HTML output encoded in UTF-8 but the browser
is displaying it under the impression that it is in iso-8859-1.

Firstly check (with a hex editor) that the HTML is indeed in UTF-8 and that
it has a <meta> tag saying so.

Then try to check what the HTTP headers say when the web server delivers the
document (or is your browser reading it from a local file?). Changing web
server and browser configurations should fix the problem (but don't ask me
exactly how).

The alternative is to try producing the HTML output in iso-8859-1 encoding,
which you can do by adding an encoding attribute to the xsl:output element
on (preferably) the top-level stylesheet module.

Incidentally, all the output produced by your stylesheet is governed by the
xsl:output properties with highest import precedence - there's no linkage
between the module from which the output was generated and the module in
which the xsl:output declaration occurs.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Ross [mailto:G.Ross@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 August 2004 10:45
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Problems generating w-circumflex character for 
> HTML output
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using three XSLT files to generate an HTML output.
> 
> The first, is a base file - this generates the actual HTML. 
> This has the output encoding of <xsl:output method="html"/>
> 
> The second, just contains a series of <xsl:variable> elements 
> to define  text strings (I have multiple versions of this 
> second file for different languages) This has the output 
> encoding of <xsl:output method="xml"/>
> 
> The third just imports the first two (again, there is one per 
> language), it has the <xsl:output method="html"/> tag.
> 
> All three files have their encoding set to UTF-8
> 
> Some of my xsl:variable values have unicode characters in. 
> Mostly, they work fine if I just use the &#x....; format to 
> specify the unicode character. (e.g. &#x00E2; gives me a 
> lower-case a with a circumflex on it)
> 
> However, I'm having great dificulty trying to generate a 
> lower-case w with a circumflex.
> 
> The unicode character for this is 0175(hex) If I put that in 
> my stylesheet, I get a captial a with a circle above it 
> followed by a greek u in the final HTML output.
> 
> In HTML the w-circumflex character is defined as &wcirc; - 
> and if I put that in an HTML document it displays fine.
> 
> I'm using Xalan 2.6.0 as my XSLT engine.
> 
> What silly mistake am I making ? What can I do to generate a 
> w-circumflex ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> GTG
> 
> Gordon Ross,
> Network Manager/Rheolwr Rhydwaith
> Countryside Council for Wales/Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru