Re[2]: WG: [xslt] decimal char problem - possible Solution (Netscape Problem Version 4.08/4.6x)

[Marco Stipek <stipek triplex de>]

Dear Pinguin,

Thursday, September 13, 2001, 6:01:38 PM, you wrote:

Lgp> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:33:58PM +0200, Marco Stipek wrote:
>> 2. Netscape prior to Version 6 has problems with the
>>    HTML Output generated by libxslt, because it isn't able to compute
>>    the hexvalue of the entities correctly. It only deals right with
>>    decimal values.

Lgp> Sorry, but i can't confirm this. I write this while working on a
Lgp> cpnverter that uses libxml/libxslt. Since this program is supposed to
Lgp> replace old code that had encoding problems i did a lot of test with
Lgp> all sorts of strange input. One of my reference browser is 
Lgp> Netscape Communicator 4.75 / Linux -- the browser has no problems at
Lgp> all to display hex encoded entities.

We have verified. With NS 4.76, 4.75 and 4.74 (on linux and win) it works correctly,
but with 4.6x and 4.0x (on windows) we must reconfirm the bug. It has
obviously changed to the 4.7 Version, so Versions prior to 4.7 are
affected. But we will like to support the Versions before too,
which could be done within the defined w3c Standards!

Lgp> What is the encoding selected in your browsers font preference?
Lgp> Do theses problems show up with _all_ non-ascii characters (in my
Lgp> output most non-ascii characters are sent as 'normal' ISO-encoded
Lgp> characters, _not_ as entities).

We everytime use default values and secondly there is a meta tag
describing the charset, which is (as far as we know) supported.

Lgp> Create a good test case and everyone will be happy to help.
Sorry, Daniel had posted the test case in our eyes. That was the
reason we didn't post one again. The other thing is that there is not
a error, as I have to emphasize, there is only  missing feature!

best regards,
 Marco
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