Re: Entities

[keshlam]

> > I removed the "encoding", but am still getting the same result.  (The
> source
> > file is plain old ASCII but also using several of the characters in the
> > range 128-255.  I'm not getting any problem with them.)
>
> Why dont'y you try the encoding apropriate to the characters you use ?

Olek's right. If you have characters above 128, it isn't "plain old ASCII". In fact, if you have bytes in that range, XML tools (which generally default to UTF-8) will probably think you're trying to specify a multibyte character sequence, so you *definitely* need to specify an encoding.

Real 7-bit ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8. As soon as you get out of that range, you need to either use an encoding that the XML parser knows how to auto-recognize (UTF-8 or UTF-16), or state your encoding explicitly. Or both.