If encoding isn't specified, the encoding should default to utf-8 (per the W3C xml spec). I don't know of any reason not to use utf-8.
Thank you, Mike Millson Web Systems Engineer Sun Certified Programmer for Java2 Platform ---------------------------------------- AableTech Solutions, Inc. 770.414.8834 404.219.3177 cell 770.414.8206 fax http://www.atsga.com ---------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:43 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: xml - unspecified error in IE 5.5, Tomcat 3.2.1 i tried MSXML 3.0 SP2 and MSXML 4.0. For both these guys, the browser displayed the error message - "System does not support the specified encoding". The servlet that sends the xml back doesn't set any encoding or anything. I tried adding the various encoding values in the <?xml version ="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> tag of the xml document. But the same error message. RS Ingo Bruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/09/2002 04:44:27 PM Please respond to "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: xml - unspecified error in IE 5.5, Tomcat 3.2.1 Hi Tomcat, rtc> Anyone has an idea why IE 5.5 displays the following error when Tomcat rtc> 3.2.1 (servlet) sends back xml to the browser. rtc> "The XML page cannot be displayed. Please check the error and try again. rtc> Unspecified error" rtc> The same program works on JRun. I suspect the content type could be a rtc> problem. But ain't sure. Anyone experienced this. If I use an XSLT rtc> processor (Xerces) on the server-side and then send back HTML it works rtc> fine. So the xml transformed to HTML works allright. It's just that XML rtc> doesn't display on IE 5.5. Do you know any other browser that displays XML? rtc> By the way I also use Apache in front of Tomcat. rtc> Any solutions/ideas/comments? Have you installed the msxml patch from microsoft ? I do not know the url but look at http://www.microsoft.com/ so long Ingo Bruell --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ICQ# 40377720> Oldenburg PGP-Fingerprint: CB01 AE12 B359 87C4 BF1C 953C 8FE7 C648 169E E5FC Germany PGP-Public-Key available at pgpkeys.mit.edu -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
