Am 22.02.2012 10:07, schrieb Invisible:

>>> Meanwhile, it looks like my only options are either to start memorising
>>> Unicode code points by ID, or to save my XSL file as UTF-8 and watch the
>>> encoding get screwed up every time I touch the file...
>>
>> Ah, so your /real/ problem is a crappy text editor.
>
> The /real/ problem is that there is no way of knowing what encoding a
> given text file has. So it's not safe to use non-ASCII characters in a
> text file. Which is why character entities were invented in the first
> place...

Use an editor that places a BOM at the start of UFT-8 files and bob's 
your uncle.

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