Re: [xslt] xsltproc changes unicode to nonsense

[Tom Moog <tmoog polhode com>]

The A with the hat is the printable part of a two byte
utf-8 sequence for   (namely octal 302 240).

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Paul Tremblay wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:34:47AM +0100, Morus Walter wrote:
> > Paul Tremblay writes:
> > > In my stlesheet, I have:
> > >
> > > <xsl:output method="html"/>
> > >
> > > I then put this character in my xslt stylesheet:
> > >
> > > &#x00A0;
> > >
> > > This should be a no break space.
> > >
> > > However, xsltproc translates this to a upper case A with a hat over it.
> > > If I change the output method line to:
> > >
> > No. It outputs a nonbreaking space in utf8 which is (in latin1)
> > a upper case A with a hat over, followed by nonbreaking space.
> > The latter is a bit hard to see but it's there.
> >
>
> Wow. I'm really confused. What does the A with the hat over it have to
> do with a non-breaking space?
>
> I thought I could pick any unicode character, and a browser would have
> to represent it. I understand that not all browsers can handle every
> single unicode character, but I thought that if a browser couldn't
> handle a character, it would output a "?".
>
> I guess I don't understand utf8. I thought that utf8 *was* unicode. That
> is, it was a way to represent all of unicode with just 8-bit numbers.
> (Now that I think of it, even 8-bit should be wrong, since not all
> computers agree on the upper 128 in character set.)
>
> Do you know any good sites that explain this?
>
>
> > Provide an apropriate output encoding (such as ASCII or iso-8859-1)
> > to get '&#160;' or a literate non breaking space.
>
> I'll have to try this. One thing that really annoys me is that I have a
> linux box, and I always get webpages full of "??" because the webpages
> assumed everone uses the same encoding scheme. I thought utf8 was a way
> to ensure this wouldn't happen. But I guess I have a thing or two to
> learn!
>
> Paul
>
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