RE: XML/XSL Transformation ENCODING error

[Dylan Walsh <Dylan.Walsh@Kadius.Com>]

> From:	Mike Brown [SMTP:mike@skew.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:40 PM
> To:	xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject:	Re: XML/XSL Transformation ENCODING error
> 
>Dylan Walsh wrote:
>> For the encoding format, try using "cp1252" or perhaps using UTF-8
(the
>> default XML encoding).

>No, you certainly wouldn't want to misdeclare the encoding as utf-8 if
the
>actual encoding is windows-1252! The bytes above 0x7F would be 
>misinterpreted.

I should have clarified - I meant that he should *use* UTF-8, as opposed
to merely declaring that it was UTF-8, when in fact the document
contains non-UTF-8 characters.

>"cp1252" is not in the IANA registry but might work with certain
parsers, 
>especially if they are writen in Java. A misdeclaration of "iso-8859-1"

>also might suffice.

He is using Java, and we have found cp1252 to be supported.