Re: [xml] xsltproc --stringparam and national chars

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 07:32, Jens Askengren wrote:
> Hello transformers!
>
> I am trying to set stylesheet parameters containing national characters
> using the --stringparam of xsltproc. This fails, and the chars are
> replaced with space.
>
> My locale is sv_SE.iso-8859-1,the stylesheet and the doc is also encoded
> using iso-8859-1.
>
> I have also tried using #&149;-style encoding of the offending chars,
> but no entity expansion is done.
>
> Using utf-8 however produces the correct result. It took some time to
> figure out, so I'd appreciate if somone would add this info to the
> man-page.

So if the man page said something like:

--stringparam name value

              Pass  a  paramenter  of  name  name and value value
              where value is a string rather than a node  identi­
              fier.(Note: The string must be utf-8.)

Would that be correct?

Cheers,
John

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