Re: [Sab] Currency Symbols

[Mark McLaren]

Robin Houston wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:57:04AM +0000, Mark McLaren wrote:
>
> > How do I print currency symbols?
> >
> > I would like to use
> >
> > <xsl:output method="text/>
> >
> > I have tried:
> >
> > <xsl:text>&#xA3;</xsl:text>
> >
> > For pounds sterling?
> >
> > But I get an A with ^ on top AND a pound sign.
>
> Yes, you would. The default output encoding is UTF-8.
> I would guess that you want ISO 8859-1, so you should use
>
>   <xsl:output method="text" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
>
> > Also, how do I print the Euro Symbol?
>
> That's a harder question. ISO 8859-1 doesn't include the Euro
> symbol. However it *is* included in 8859-15 and of course in
> Unicode. If your system supports it you can use ISO 8859-15
> output encoding, or indeed UTF-8.
>
> The Euro sign is &#x20AC;
>
>  .robin.

Thanks Robin,

I'm still using Sablotron 0.44 since I am mostly on FreeBSD (0.50 has
wchar.h problems).

I take it this will not work in 0.44?

--
Mark
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