Encoding question

[RD]

What encoding must I use in my XML file to show the french character set
correctly in the browser?

I'm extracing data from a SQl server 2000 table and placing it in XML files
using the dataset.writeXML command. That part of it works fine, but when the
data in te XML file contains french characters (éêèçà etc..) the output is
weird.

Secondly I want to put some captions in the XSL style sheet that controls
the output and there also these characters are not recognized and give an
error. What do you have to do to put foreign characters in captions
contained in the style sheet.

Thanks for your help,
Merry Christmas to all,
Bob

[Martin Honnen]

RD wrote:

What encoding must I use in my XML file to show the french character set
correctly in the browser?
That depends on what character sets the XML parser of your browser
understands. XML parsers however are required to understand both UTF-8
and UTF-16 thus if you choose one of them the parser shouldn't have a
problem.
Secondly I want to put some captions in the XSL style sheet that controls
the output and there also these characters are not recognized and give an
error. What do you have to do to put foreign characters in captions
contained in the style sheet.

An XSL stylesheet usually transforms XML to HTML to render it in a
browser so if you for instance use
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" />
in that stylesheet then there shouldn't be a problem
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[RD]

Thanks for the help,
I'm new to all this stuff, Windows forms seems so simple by comparison :-)

Bob
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RD wrote:

What encoding must I use in my XML file to show the french character set
correctly in the browser?

That depends on what character sets the XML parser of your browser
understands. XML parsers however are required to understand both UTF-8
and UTF-16 thus if you choose one of them the parser shouldn't have a
problem.

Secondly I want to put some captions in the XSL style sheet that controls the output and there also these characters are not recognized and give an error. What do you have to do to put foreign characters in captions
contained in the style sheet.

An XSL stylesheet usually transforms XML to HTML to render it in a
browser so if you for instance use
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" />
in that stylesheet then there shouldn't be a problem
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/