On 10/31/07, Bob Stayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Ettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Dave Pawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook] invalid characters for ISO-8859-1 response
>
> >
> > I'm still confused though...why make a doc require UTF-8, when if I
> > just typed it out there would be no dependency.
>
> UTF-8 output is not required, as the customization examples demonstrated.
> You can additionally customize the gentext strings to replace the
> non-breaking spaces.
>
> If you are wondering why UTF-8 is the default output encoding, that's
> because the DocBook XSL stylesheets support 59 languages, and the easiest
> way to do that is using Unicode, for which UTF-8 is the most commonly
> supported encoding. Does that help?
>
Sure, unicode makes sense...I could be missing something but I
would've left entity references alone...I still don't see what is
gained by converting Πvs. just leaving it as Πin the
output...or simply leaving it as a space.
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