Hi All,
I have a Cocoon 2.1.8 application using Saxon, and after a very long time with no problems, we just stumbled upon a bug in the (now rather old) version of Saxon that we were using. So I downloaded the latest Saxon distribution and swapped out the Saxon JAR, and... problem solved! Except that now, I seem to have a new problem with character encoding...
Cocoon is serving a web page with a bunch of occurrences of the "ndash" character (Unicode #8211). These displayed correctly with the old Saxon, but now with the new version they instead look like this:
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:-(. The HTMLSerializer is adding the correct
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
The declaration for that component did not include any <encoding>
element. I tried adding one like this:
<encoding>utf-8</encoding>
which had no effect. But then just for giggles I tried
<encoding>iso-8859-1</encoding>
...and discovered that this "fixed" the bad characters. (It also
changes the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"> element generated by the
serializer). Which is interesting, but not really what I want; I want
to be all UTF-8. So I reverted back to 'utf-8' in the <encoding> of
the HTMLSerializer configuration and kept fiddling around. I tried
adding
<xsl:output format="xml" encoding="utf-8"/>
to my stylesheets, but that had no effect. In addition, I then also
tried adding 'encoding="UTF-8"' to the <?xml?> preamble of my source
document, and that also had no effect.
Anybody have any clues to share? thx, —ml—
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