Thanks Petr
setting the charset to 'utf-8' has done the trick
> Mat,
>
> If you try to display a utf-8 file using iso-8859-1 or win-1252 code page, �
> is displayed instead of space. I guess this is the reason of your problem.
> To be sure, include
> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> to your
> HTML. You can either be happy with utf-8 (and include META to all your
> file), or to try recode the output.
>
> Sablot manual says the following on output encoding:
>
> The output is in UTF-8 by default. If the iconv library is present on the
> system (it seems to be a standard part of glibc2, and a Win32 implementation
> is available), then any of the above encoding can be specified for output,
> using the 'encoding' attribute of xsl:output. Note that this new feature [by
> Sven Neumann] still needs testing.
>
> Petr
>
> Mat Jones wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to ouput a   (non breaking space) entity from an XSLT
> > transformation. My stylesheet is set to use the 'html' output method.
> > For some reason the entity is not being output, I'm getting an �
> > character instead. Am I missing something? Do I need to use
> > <xsl:entity_ref name="nbsp"/> instead?
> >
> > I will also need to process XML files that contain   entities and
> > pass them through to the output.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
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