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[team4xt] Re: XT FAQ - Character encoding

Subject: [team4xt] Re: XT FAQ - Character encoding

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From: Dave Pawson (dave.pawson@virgin.net)
Date: 03/05/2000 - 14:45


     It appears to me that XT doesn't have support for different
     output character
     encodes, or the support is lacking somewhat. Using ISO-8859-1 and the
     British pound sign (£), XT wasn't encoding it the way I wanted
     it, but Xalan
     did. While this topic is covered in the FAQ, I think, it is
     not clear, and a
     simple question and answer (to state XT capabilities in this
     area) might
     prevent some people banging their heads against the wall unnecessarily.

But to *really* stop banging their heads, its necessary to understand
more than that. Count the number of questions on general character
handling. I've had three hours today on the train with Tony Grahams
Unicode book. I've lots more reading to do :-)

XT is 'fairly' limited in its encoding handling relative to some
other processors which make fuller use of the java environment.

I'd hate to make a judgement on it. It 'does as required' whereas
Saxon does 'more'.

Regards, DaveP

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