Re: svn commit: r567258 - in /jakarta/site: docs/ docs/site/ docs/site/downloads/ docs/site/news/ docs/site/pmc/ xdocs/stylesheets/

sebb wrote:
> Is there a way to fix build.xml so that the user's default encoding
> does not affect the output? Or perhaps we could add a check and warn
> if the encoding is wrong?
> 
> The xml source files are already flagged as ISO-8859-1, as is the
> stylesheet, which uses output encoding ISO-8859-1 as well, which one
> might have hoped would be enough...

I don't know what the exact symptoms of the problem are.
This is what the XSLT spec says about output encodings [1]:

> The encoding attribute specifies the preferred encoding to use for
> outputting the result tree. XSLT processors are required to respect
> values of UTF-8 and UTF-16. For other values, if the XSLT processor
> does not support the specified encoding it may signal an error; if
> it does not signal an error it should use UTF-8 or UTF-16 instead.

Is the output generated in UTF-8 or UTF-16? Then the solution
would be to use one of those as the output encoding, since only
those are required to be supported on all platforms.

cheers,
  Roland

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-XML-Output-Method