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> Hi,
>
>
>>I use the LDAP-Transformer. It's works fine. But I have a Problem with
>>special german characters. I must use the character set "ISO-8859-1".
>>The Problem occurs only on LDAP-Transformer-Datas. On the normal conversion
>>from xml to html using xslt occurs no Problems with special german
>>characters.
>>What can I do?
>
>
> We had a similar problem with our Oracle database when we used html forms.
> Everything worked fine, when we typed data in the form and sent it to the xsp
> page for processing.
> But when we read data from the database and used it to initialize the form data,
> it got "encrypted".
> Our solution - which, in my opinion, is not really good - is to tell the html
> serializer to generate output in the "ISO-8859-1" character set instead of the
> normal "UTF-8" character set. Then all the data, which is serialized to html
> stays in the "ISO-8859-1" character set, which has been read from the database.
>
This is an issue with your database vendor not supporting other encoding
standards. Bear in mind that old Netscape 4.x browsers do not handle
UTF-8 encodings well at all. The newer browsers all do support it.
That said, Readers are supposed to make the conversions for you...
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