POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The trouble with XSLT : Re: The trouble with XML Server Time
29 Jul 2024 14:15:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The trouble with XML  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 19 Mar 2012 12:21:27
Message: <4f675d07$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/9/2012 2:56 PM, Warp wrote:
> Mike Raiford<no.### [at] spamme>  wrote:
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
>
>> Gaah! No! Use UTF-8! 8859-1 is Western European/United States only! Any
>> characters that are not in this set will be rendered as ? or worse. UTF-8 gives
>> access to the whole of the Unicode codeset, so no data will be mangled by the
>> encoding. Sorry, I'm a big proponent of using a more universal character set,
>> especially when handling data.
>
>    Nothing stops you from using&#xx; codes regardless of the encoding.
>

This is true, but, in general, UTF-8 is the better way to go, but if the 
data displayed on the page comes form a different source...


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