On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:59 +0200, Joachim Bauch wrote: [...] > If I run this through xmllint (on Windows, binary version 2.6.19 from > xmlsoft.org) > the result looks like this: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <Root> > <Node>Content äöü</Node> > </Root> > > As you can see, the utf-8 characters have been replaced by entities that > specify > the corresponding latin-1 characters.
Actually they are numeric character references, not entities... I am not trying to be needlessly pedantic, but rather trying to give you the right term to help you search for information... Numeric character references are always to Unicode codepoints, regardless of the document's encoding. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin Pictures from old books: http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ IRC (chat) programs: www.ircreviews.org/clients/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
