[thelist] XML/XSLT and accented charaters...

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 3 07:39:01 CDT 2001


> From: darren <darren at web-bitch.co.uk>
[...] 
> this works perfectly in plain old english, but some of the pages are
> in other languages such as french, portuguese.  this means i need to
> be able to display accented characters in my headings in the html. 
> the usual &uacute; causes the stylesheet to give an error, and nothing
> i can think of, or find, has worked.

encode your encodings...

&uacute; --> &amp;uacute;

and if you use the numerical entity (which tends to offer more 
support across older browsers, since the named ones generally 
came later), it would be the same...

&#153; --> &amp;#153;





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